First Words

How much non-speak can we take?

Why the small talk?

Why the forced conversation?

If you have nothing to say,

don't let that stop you.

You talk a lot but say nothing

For days it went on like that.

I feel like I learned nothing,

despite hearing so much.

Heard,

but not listening.

I may as well not understand the words you say.

English is not my first language.

Language was not my first language.

I got on just fine before I was forced to communicate 

After all,

it is just more empty vibration

added to the meaningless cacophony.

We are all lost in the soundscape

Lacking identity.

Lacking personality.

The most of these people want to be just another 1 in the million

Most of those people want to be an individual just like everyone else

Is it too much to ask to be ignored 

for being unlike?