Strangers

A room full of strangers, not one blood tie
a room full of strangers, can't look them in the eye.
A room full of strangers all trying to hang on
a room full of strangers with one common bond.
I look at these strangers and think who can they be
I gaze at their faces no one's familar to me.
I stare at these people, strangers, I can't comprehend;
How in just a few days they have turned into friends.

Kathalise Martin
Sometime in 1980