Different I remember as a child My becoming reconciled Already with my being Different seeing I was Getting used to it because I could see the way it would be Understood I should be me All the way and it was freeing Reconciled to it to get What I had to get to let Me be myself being free Getting free by getting it Being me and seeing love In myself and every one of Us who do the best we know And for the rest to let it go I went a different way All the way the way I was Seeing I was anyway With love doing what it does Opening my hoping heart As not apart from but a part Of us humans being kind Humans being differently Opening my mind to find Myself in my humankind Opening my eyes to see Us in our humanity All the way is not too far And if you are different too Being us the way we are You know me understanding you Steven Curtis Lance