If life were a fishpond
and people were the fish
I'd be a frog
Welcomed with good wishes
and open fins but
Forgotten when surfacing for air
When I walk into a place
hugs hello - how are you??
Small talk is made
For everyone I've just hello'd
each person I've hugged
I now find myself standing - alone
I look around at the various cliques
groups with their connections
And feel unplugged
In effort to fit, co-exist
I smile, make funnies, talk loud
I stop, then wonder when I disappeared
So here I lean, holding up the bar
a flurry of activity, of people
Isolated, solitary
A frog can swim with the fish
frolic and play with the best
But you and I know, it ain't like the rest
RIBBIT!!!
