here, there, nowhere

Aimless chatter,
phlegmatic conversations,
purple prose,
cacophonous laughter,
mindless voices,
pierce the mind.

I wander away,
Neither here, nor there
A vacant smile,
A nod sometimes,
Mostly, a vacant stare
I don’t belong, quite evidently
And suddenly,
Everything becomes an effort
Even the smiles.

And then, i am pulled back
To mundane chores
Ah! But mundaneness does allow
Me to slip away once more.



The mind slips into listlessness,
Neither here nor there