Hello Again

March 16, 2025 - less than a minute read

Alone in a crowd

Umm hello
I’m saying hi
Perhaps this smile
Hides what’s behind

I have no friends
So I pretend
With these scheduled stops
Amidst your disinterested coughs

I have been thinking quietly
Leaning over this counter
Perhaps by forcing -hello- my anxiety
I will once again re-enter society

But no, I can see
I’m not blind if you can believe
You’re enormously annoyed
But, if you play along with this ploy

Perhaps…
Perhaps, I will be happy

So haha!
Let me begin again
And I will pretend
That you have become my friend


© 2025 - Curtis Lowder