Sniggers, giggles, guffaws and cackles
Lunch hour buzz in noon's dizziness
Conversations sit on midday's languor
A throbbing rumble in my deafening silence
Spins and actions in busy monotony
Flying chopsticks, clear soup splashing
Jostle and hustle in forced conformity
Lip-sealed anger, heart in treachery
A hidden corner gossip free
Between the lines of fantasy
A lonesome shadow a box in hand
Insignificance, stares aplenty
The glare of normalcy begins to surrender
Fluorescent lights fade in harmony
Comes the glow of a heart that races
Against the surges of neural charges-
In a heartthrob daintily waltz
In all excitement poetry halts.

[Written recently in the canteen]