They are there.

They were never there
You were the only one
You were different
Strange

You knew there were people
like you
Just nowhere close
You needed your kind of people
around
and you'd see them
all over the place
except for anywhere
close
tangible

when you look back
you realized
they were there
they were the ones
you suspected
least
of being like you
being different
like you
funny
you only realize this
years later
while that thought:
knowing they were there
you needed the most
back then.