New reply from Susan Katz
<p>Thanks for sharing – another really well written, poetically composed poem – that makes some powerful points. I particularly like your opening stanza and the way the message builds in the poem as you move through it. I recently had someone send me an AI poem – it had all the elements and none of the feeling or meaning. Your poems are always emotionally, as well as intellectually, accessible.</p>
https://poetladykatz.com/poetry-talk/a-love-that-fits-why
Original Post by Comfort
A love that fits, why ?
<p>I spend time chatting with strangers,</p>
<p>their words circling me like moths—</p>
<p>soft, harmless, repetitive</p>
<p>and all I can offer are borrowed nods:</p>
<p>“Yes… hmmm… I see what you mean,”</p>
<p>each one a polite stamp of existence</p>
<p>that leads them deeper into monologues</p>
<p>I never asked to host.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I remain there like a mime in a glass box,</p>
<p>performing silence,</p>
<p>letting it stretch between us</p>
<p>until it becomes a command:</p>
<p>continue… keep talking… fill the space I’m drowning in.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And somewhere beneath their small talk,</p>
<p>I wish—just once—someone would read the air</p>
<p>instead of the script.</p>
<p>" Have you seen the new episode of stranger thi…" Must’ve been interference.</p>
<p>A breeze brushing past my ear, nothing more.</p>
<p>Because surely no signal meant for me</p>
<p>would arrive so…</p>
<p> </p>
<p>" I love y…" </p>
<p>Must've the been the wind,</p>
<p>The tide or the mind, </p>
<p>A light not meant to be found, </p>
<p>Wait, let me rewind :</p>
<p>How I changed,</p>
<p>My tone, structure and lines </p>
<p>Just not not be found. </p>
<p>Maybe I'm the… </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I spend time chatting with strangers. </p>