Introductions Poem by Glen Martin Fitch

So who are you?
You greet or just retreat?
You trust your eyes
or trust your gut much more?
Respect your heart or brain?
Do they compete?
You leave the cupboard open?
Close the door?
What lessons did you learn
from leers and jeers.
Born first or last?
Were you an only child?
You feared your skin
was darker than your peers?
Too short?
Too tall?
Too fat?
Too thin?
Too wild?
I'll never know your life,
the tears you've shed,
your trials, triumphs, joys,
your secret shame.
But I have cried and laughed.
When pricked I bled.
On this I dare
to offer you my name.
Though no one lets a stranger
come too near
Each foe's a friend
whose tale you’ve yet to hear.