Its summer in the city and its time for a lunch break .
I asked this girl who is a temp in data base intake , if she would like to join me for lunch on this nice day .
Being shy its always hard to find the right words to say .
When she said ok I almost jumped three feet in the air .
We left our work stations and walked out in the summer glare .
It was a beautiful day and the sidewalks were busy .
People with starbucks cups and other things cool and fizzy .
We're doing lunch together, in this kind of café shop .
The pace of life and all the traffic, never seems to stop .
Surrounded by sneezes , coughs
and all kinds of sounds around me .
I'm sitting trying to stretch out, a half a cup of tea .
The clinking of spoons on saucers
and I'm thinking , that's nice .
Lonely sounds, trying to escape ,from all the daily strife .
Inside my head I hear my heart and this is what it said ,
Be easy and remain apart from the thoughts in your head .
Like a TV show I watched then changed the channel to her .
She pulled another ring pull from a can of beer and there ,
she began slurping it down ,until her throat was all clear .
I looked into her eyes so distant red and filled with cheer
My heart was longing to be heard,
but just where could I start ?
I have to say , I had to put away my pounding heart .
Loneliness and togetherness, can raise a quiet fear .
Table talk and endless chit chat ; this and that in my ear .
Scrambled noise and all that city life employs, ever near .
The waitress says , can I help you ?
I want to disappear .
She smiled a friendly smile .
Another can of beer my dear ?
Oh yes please ,
Lets do lunch again sometime :
Maybe next year .
By Paul McCann
Originally Posted On Site: 2009-07-18 22:48:01
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