The room is dim and the music loud,

I feel lonely…and yet I’m in a crowd,

Friends and a few strangers strewn around,

Idle banter and hollow laughs doing the rounds,

I zone out of where I am and go back somewhere in time,

I see us smile and I have her hand in mine,

I shake her memory off and land back in the room,

His guffaw suggests something funny and politely I smile in my gloom…