Belonging

People flutter in and out

I stay

Lost for what to say

I wait

Separate and away

I watch

Talking, listening, laughing

silence

Never is a day

I feel

I belong with them this way

I don't

Sorrow builds inside

I'm dying

Wondering why I'm all

Alone

Then as I'm at home

It happens

Friends will talk

And I'm included

Topics that I know as well

Thoughts alike I feel to tell

Talking, listening, laughing

Losing time, and space in passing

Then I look about the room

Locking eyes with someone new

Who sips their drink and shifts their eyes

For they're alone within this hive

Why do we play this game?

Our thoughts of friends are not the same.

But every group has just the one

Who's lonely, wanting, starved of fun