Thursday, May 6, 2010

The Party

Celebration end, time sheds its cloak
And all who were stuck, unwind
and emotions, once so easily stoked,
seem to have grown their own minds.
Those in the limelight pack up and leave
Forgotten in the instant it ended,
And enmities and jealousies dissolved in the glitter,
don't really seem to have been mended.
The beauty and laughter, so innocent at first
reveal the paint and pretense
While insecurities which relaxed in the music
return armed with new found sense.
The talk that might have turned a few heads
is remembered with a wicked glee
that lets itself loose with enormous frenzy,
oh, such upright people, we!
This labeled wrong, that, "too strong!
surely too rude and indecent!"
but what is unsaid and most cruelly implied
certainly could not have been meant!
Why, when people so immediately pretty
decked in costumes so striking,
pay you attention you've always deserved
you instantly start taking a liking.
"They understand me, they like me, they do!"
And when it gets a bit chilly,
You wonder if its the windows that's open or
something you said that's quite silly.
You only thought you were being yourself,
but no matter, if an elevated style,
is what they desire, by god! you won't tire,
You'll make yourself well-worth their while.
But at the end of the evening, whens all said and done,
its left you with a bitter taste,
But, you keep reassuring yourself,
it can't have been ALL a waste.
Finding good folk is so hard, as it is,
Intelligent discussions so few!
No, you count your blessings and pack up your thoughts,
and until next time, bid adieu.

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