i get the feeling when i'm alone sailing on the high notes of song ,
no one knows i can sing.
i get it when he looks at me and whispers to me the things he should never have said.
i get it when she hugs me and i smell the scent of lilacs the drifts around her.
i get it when he smiles and twists my words into some clever battle of wits.
i get it when she (although so different from me in mind and body),
embraces me as her family.
i get it when he lifts me to the air and shouts " squirt, i missed you!".
i get it when the fine line from me to the character breaks and i am engulfed in the vast wasteland of someone other than myself and