A Good Thing - Monica Richards

Conversation with a 5-year-old version of myself

This is dedicated to all the strange children we once were and still are

There’s something strange about you

But that’s a good thing

What they don’t know about you

I can see

And when no one is around

I know you’re magic

You speak to animals

And they understand

I I was you

I was there

It feels like lifetimes ago

When there was music in my head that no one else could hear

There’s something strange about you

But that’s a good thing

What they don’t know about you

Is their loss

And when they laugh at you

Make you feel worthless in your own skin

They don’t know you’re going to do some amazing things

You are me

You are here

It feels like ages from now

When your strangeness turns to strength

And it all becomes so clear

Everyone is lost until their heart is found

Everyone feels weak

Everyone breaks down

Everyone needs love and a place to call their own

Everyone is tired

Everyone feels totally alone

There’s something strange about you

But that’s a good thing

What they don’t know about you

I can see

They say we’re the Strange Ones but we are the lucky ones

We grew up stronger

We grew up knowing what the others take their lifetimes to understand

There’s nothing strange about us at all

Everyone is lost until their heart is found

Everyone feels weak

Everyone breaks down

Everyone needs love and a place to call their own

Everyone must know

That no one is alone