THE REUNION
A thousand experiences
and so little time to share them
Ideas by the score
and the floor already taken
already littered.
Three years accumulation
takes a great deal of dumping
I mean to say
Sharing
We try taking turns
knowing the gregarious extroverts
among us
will invent new ways
to interrupt mid-sentence
to embellish old stories
to finish incomplete sentences
still in the birthing process
The only defense for the hesitant
a low murmur
another level of conversation
camouflaged beneath the first
a raised eyebrow
Chaos as usual reigns
everyone talking at once
nobody listening
I guess it isn't important
that everything be heard…
just that everything
gets said.
From Illuminations: A Book of Poetry. Printed with permission from Mary Hertzler, all rights reserved.
