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People Watching
Posted by: samitr (63.225.225.---)
Date: April 24, 2022 12:37AM

Faces at a distance,
Milling, rolling, twisting
Ever changing in my eyes.
Strangers who I see,
I talk with them each day,
But we all live our own lives
In our own worlds.
Our own words,
Our own songs
To pull us through each day.

Some conversing,
Some smiling,
Yet even fewer laughing,
Yet even more hiding.
Hiding themselves within their world,
As strangers,
As strangers we are safe.
Distant and unfeeling,
We smile and show sympathy,
But are relieved to do no more.
At a distance we remain
Faces, nothing more.
Another blur in an
Ever-changing myriad of color.

Samitr


Re: People Watching
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: April 24, 2022 04:43AM

A good read, Samitr.

Les


Re: People Watching
Posted by: UPMarty (71.87.67.---)
Date: April 25, 2022 10:43AM

We smile and show sympathy,
But are relieved to do no more

I find these lines capturing the essence of your poem, Samitr. I think there is so much troubling all of us these days that we have all we can do to live inside our own skin. Even if we know that reaching out to each other may be the very thing that could save the situation.

Mary


Re: People Watching
Posted by: les712 (68.185.64.---)
Date: May 11, 2022 01:40PM

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