Our speaker starts out by telling us all about how, when he was a child, he was different from everybody else: different likes and dislikes, different views, etc. At a certain point, however, he came into contact with a very strange mystery. It's so mysterious he doesn't know how to explain it to us, but he saw it in just about everything around him: the mountains, the fountains, the storms—even in some weird demon-cloud that happened to be hanging out in the middle of a bright blue sky.
Okay, so… at least he's got that going for him?