--- title: A stranger in paradise date: 2019-12-05T02:44:04Z modified: 2019-12-05T04:15:29Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/a-stranger-in-paradise/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 231 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/stranger-in-paradise.png" featured_image_alt: Stranger in Paradise author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2019-12-05T04:15:29Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![Stranger in Paradise](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/stranger-in-paradise.png) sitting in the coffee shop on a cold and rainy afternoon clutching a cup of hot cappuccino i watch the world go by sporting a couple of tattoos with a stern face i stare at all – young and the old that walk past used to laugh at used to make fun of people peering from the inside of a cafe lazily killing time seemingly doing nothing my ego that once clouded me just ran away in the face of adversity my pride rooted out and now replaced by humility now watching the world go by from inside the same cafe all the hurt inside hidden so well i seem strong enough on the surface i seem like a hardened warrior fear written all over my eyes i was scared but no one would listen cause no one cared now, sitting in an obscure coffee shop abandoned in my fame struggling [within](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/stranger-within.md) i sit here i sit here wondering what the hell is wrong (with me!) loved by all one day loathed by everyone, the next with no place to call home i wander lonely as a cloud going nowhere being everywhere when my time comes forget the wrong i may have done forget the tears i made you shed just remember me as the stranger in [paradise](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-beggar-in-paradise.md) fighting hell within x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x **note:** initially inspired by an article i read over yday First written and published on July 8, 2008 and re-published on Dec 12, 2019.