Four people seated alone
each at separate tables
A supper break at our
work place
Two of the people talk
on cell phones to
someone
invisible from this room
Four people seated alone
each at separate tables
we do not speak
we do not share
we do not visit
I observe this
Missed opportunity
of interaction between
people that are placed
in the same work space
Invisible walls separate
any human connection
One reads
two use cell phones
I write
One sits alone with her
supper plate
I wonder at this
Missed opportunity
to forge a friendship of
camaraderie
Self imposed isolation
I ponder this in silent
observation
of our common
Missed opportunities.
written by Pauline
copyright April 1, 2007
5 comments:
Pauline, it is like this where I work as well, there are so many on the payroll we are a company of strangers. But I find with my job to unwind even for 15 minutes I need space to be alone for a bit. I don't think it is so much we want to not be friendly it is because we need to be alone.
wonderful post, Thank you for sharing.
Pauline -- come to work in a school. I often wish the people in the teacher's lounge would shut up. They seldom have anything positive to say.
Bill, yes people do need time out and I am guilty of that myself!
quilldancer, positive comments are the ones we search for...perhaps you and are are searching in the wrong locations. LOL
We sit together at our lunch sometimes 6 or 7 every day.... I am the quietest ...but I still say something... Only one other person speaks English so I have to concentrate when they speak Spanish fast. Some days I simply zone out so I can relax. Yet every lunch is a happy time of sharing.
Your poem carries truth and sometimes truth is sad. There are times when I feel the world has forgotten how to share, to communicate in a nice way. Sometimes though, every one is waiting for another person to go first. When I worked for the power co I started a pot luck lunch... first it was just us 6 or so.. then it became everyone in our section.. then their families came...then the other floors joined it and we grew beyond 30 - 40 people. It was great fun.
Stopping by to wish you and your family a Blessed Easter Weekend
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