You’ve always been one of us
So stop acting
Like you’re the one who has

 something to prove
Like I’m the one who needs to hear

 your words
Of awkward admiration
I’ve known it
Not as long as others I’m sure
But at least from the moment your

 shadow intersected my threshold
And your mind
Fierce and furious
Told the tale of its exploits
Almost apologetic
Which is actually comedic
In a moment nearly cathartic
Because I’m just the same you know
The curiosity, the doubt, the fleetness

 of thought and the depth of absorption
In some beautiful and precise endeavor
Complexity not a signpost of fear
Rather a joyous playground
It’s mysteries treasures hid in plain view
So let’s raise our cups as equals
As friends
As instruments unified in

 sympathic resonance
And drink to the dregs
To the reinvention of wheels
To the vast superiority of building
Over buying
To the idea that a piano keyboard is

 more lovely a user interface by far
Than that goddamn claw machine

 at the highway rest stop
Always promising instant gratification
Always letting you down to the tune

 of two quarters and an empty pocket
To Teaching Yourself How to

 Program in Ten Grueling Years
Of error messages that scroll down

 endlessly
When what it meant to say was
You neglected please or thank

 you very much
That is to say
A freaking semicolon
To the glorious rapture of a world

 compiled into a incomprehensible

 trail of digits
Unrolling to affect
The light dancing around us
We are different
You and I
But you are, without a doubt,
One of us.