"Andrew On Prostitutes" 
by Gibran Khalil Gibran 

THE OTHER WANDERER

Once on a time I met another man of the roads. He too was a little mad, and thus spoke
to me: 

"I am a wanderer. Oftentimes it seems that I walk the earth among pygmies. And
because my head is seventy cubits farther from the earth than theirs, it creates higher
and freer thoughts. "But in truth I walk not among men but above them, and all they can
see of me is my footprints in their open fields. 

"And often have I heard them discuss and disagree over the shape and size of my
footprints. For there are some who say, 'These are the tracks of a mammoth that roamed
the earth in the far past.' And others say, 'Nay, these are places where meteors have
fallen from the distant stars.' 

"But you, my friend, you know full well that they are naught save the footprints of a
wanderer."