Marla Lukofsky, a Canadian inspirational keynote speaker, stand-up comedian, writer, voice-over actor, speaking coach, and cancer survivor, sent us a prose poem describing her feelings of relative isolation. Her words reminded me of Emily Dickinson's fine poem
I ’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Marla begins her piece. No Ones Priority" with these words:
It’s quite a unique feeling, being no one’s priority. It’s freeing in a way –
an independence of sorts. Not necessarily one that you’d wish for but nevertheless
it’s there for the taking.
And you’ve been assigned the task and title. You are now crowned… ‘No one’s priority.’
For full poem: Download No One’s Priority