--- title: In The Arms Of A Stranger date: 2006-11-09T08:54:21Z modified: 2006-11-09T08:54:21Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/in-the-arms-of-a-stranger/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 55 categories: - Love Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2006-11-09T08:54:21Z tags: - Love Poems --- When I was tiny – I was dark and stout My fairy godmother – Just never came about I knew I was ugly – My smile made it worse I cried every night – I knew I was cursed Then one day a [star](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/stars-dark.md) shot out of sight Was it an angel – it wasn’t very bright Months had past – I had no clue So I sat with candles burning tissue It wasn’t witchcraft – It was only my mind I wrote in it a [letter](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-love-letter.md) A letter hoping I would be fine Fairer skin-finer lines Hoping to be lovely I wanted this right. Years past my color changed Lighter than the moon and darker was my mane I now wondered what would I do So I wrote another letter And I asked for you. Lighter eyes darker hair Shiny lips that beautiful stare When you would touch me my foot would pop It was then I met you – we were walking away The [sea](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/pebbles-of-the-sea.md) breeze was whistling- Shuffling my hair Like a star you touched me around my waist And in all suddenness my foot went in haste And out of my heel popped out my foot Stumbling away I fell into your looks And again you touched me That stare was so bright Ill hold you my [angel](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/my-angel.md) with all my might I now make you my [heart](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/for-the-woman-who-stole-my-heart.md) – The day you stop That day I will fall apart From an ugly duckling into a swan My fairy godmother trumpeting her horn [Screaming loudly](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/screaming-out-loud.md) this is who I am Telling everyone it was all her plan Hoping and wondering What her next plan would be She left you here alone Alone here with me