Cafeteria


With a daring, few have seen 
walking with an air of stability 
into a room crowded with intimacy 
I found a barren table 
my mind must have been unstable 
sitting there quite unable 
to block the view from distant tables 

pretending all is normal 
as fearful thoughts race through my mind 
evil thoughts, I thought, they thought 
must be racing through their minds 

but who am I to judge what’s normal 

finally in a desperate moment 
reaching into my open lunch bucket 
grasping what I thought would be 
a venture from reality 

forgetting all the daily chatter 
predicting news that doesn’t matter 
I open up my book to read 
indifference surrounding me 

 

Marvin Young