I’d Rather be Home

From today’s Daily Prompt: Why Can’t We Be Friends

I’d Rather be Home

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Though I smile wide and bright

I take no delight 

Meeting new friends, causes me fright

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Please don’t tell me to mingle

The thought makes me tingle

I’d rather sit silently, happily single

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You can safely deduce

If I have an excuse

I’ll be avoiding this cause to bemuse

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How do others chit chat and mix

When I see no fix?

I am lacking this social bag of tricks

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Alone in the crowd

Voices blurry and loud

I’d rather lie in an unheard death-shroud

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But

Often there’s one

Eyes like a quiet night’s sun

Depth showing possible connection

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Though alone in a corner

There’s strength in this foreigner

I’m no longer this gathering’s sole mourner

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For an evening or more

I’ve a soul to explore

This event, no longer an uncomfortable bore

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