fancy meeting you

Cannot find a talk that's colloquial,

I sat beside him in deafening silence

Searching for something that's interesting,

But my mind was a total blank.

I waited for him to talk first,

But he seemed to be out of topics, too

At the corner of my eye,

I saw him shift uncomfortably in the bench.

The environment around us was noisy;

Girls calling to each other,

Boys formed conspiratorial huddles,

But ours was an isolated island.

Never thinking of what to say,

I just glanced at him and smiled.

To my astonishment, he smiled back!

Then I knew we were friends-- 

Even though we haven't had a conversation at all!

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