SITTING in SILENCE, a poem

SITTING in SILENCE

So many couples sitting

in silence in restaurants

We always spoke

engaged in sweet conversation

looking into each other’s eyes

Why an absence of dialogue?

their disconnected lives speaking?

We were joined

in lively discourse

reflecting our love

Having eaten and paid the bill

they exit to their dreariness

We connected again

in the privacy

of our lovely home

(April 4, 2017)