I don’t participate
Standing Sitting
On the sidelines
Tacit smiles
Forcing expression
Into my face
Defenestrating
Emotion, as eyes
window the soul

Thoughts slide in
My mind open
Chasing dreams
Tangled in hopes
Repressed ambition
Boiling away happily
Evaporates guilt
and sinus congestion.

I wait placid
Not caring
Not interrupting
Patient, smiling
Less interestedIn your memories
Made before me.
Chronic nostalgia
Indicates discontent.