I am an outcast...

I am an outcast.

I do not fit in your mold.
You can place me in it if you like, but I will never look like it
Either I will spring out of it, or I will blow it wide open.
For I am an outcast.

I am on the outside of your circle, and yet you welcome me.
I sit silently on the sidelines, watching, observing,
Seeing things that others overlook.
I make entrance, and am accepted, welcomed, encouraged.
Accepted because I look like you, act like you, talk like you.
But I am an outcast.

I stay among you for as long as I choose.
I will not be pushed away easily.
You will love me or despise me once I break the mold of your perceptions.
Which one you choose matters not to me.
You cannot make me change my path.
Because I am an outcast, and I have no permanent place.

I have travelled to realms you cannot imagine.
I have seen things that you cannot comprehend.
I have stepped into places and things that would cause the strong to shudder.
Things that would cause the weak to faint.
Things that would drive normal men over the edges of insanity.
Because I am an outcast, just like them.

I am relevant, because I have been there.
They see the scars, the wounds of familiar battles, and they know I will not judge.
They know I will not lie or feed them fluff.
Why would I have reason to?

I am an outcast, just as He was.
Because He was cast out for me, I will choose to be an outcast for Him.
Because He was and is all things for all people,
I will be all things in His power and plan to all people He places around me.
Because He loved me without shame into death itself,
I will love without shame until I draw my last breath.
Because He was mocked and ridiculed before men,
I will dance before my Father, regardless of the mocking chatter.
And if it means becoming a fool,
Undignified in the sight of man, for the Glory of His Kingdom,
For the reaching of even just one of His precious children,
Then I will be foolish for Him.
Because I am an outcast.

(c) Copyright 29 June, 2010
Eric C. Henry

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