What the hell…Chilly’s little spot on lit

I wrote this today. Im not sure if here is the right place for it, but it feels right.
@Chillygirl
If not let me know and I'll delete it.

I am standing in a room, they already know each other and laughter moves easily, like furniture arranged long before I arrived.

Faces blur into polite constellations.
They orbit shared memories, inside jokes, flickering like light switches, I do not know how to reach.

No one is unkind.
That almost makes it harder.
Kindness without context, is a chair offered at the edge of the table.

I hold my name carefully, unsure where to set it down.
Every conversation feels mid-sentence, I am late, or early, or wrong entirely.

Is this the place I was meant to be, or just where the door happened to open?
The walls listen but do not answer.
The floor accepts my weight without opinion.

I scan the room for recognition, for a glance that says you belong here.
But belonging seems to hum, at a frequency I cannot hear.

Still, I stay.

Because sometimes the right place is not the room that welcomes you, but the one where you learn how to stand among strangers without disappearing.
 
I wrote this today. Im not sure if here is the right place for it, but it feels right.
@Chillygirl
If not let me know and I'll delete it.

I am standing in a room, they already know each other and laughter moves easily, like furniture arranged long before I arrived.

Faces blur into polite constellations.
They orbit shared memories, inside jokes, flickering like light switches, I do not know how to reach.

No one is unkind.
That almost makes it harder.
Kindness without context, is a chair offered at the edge of the table.

I hold my name carefully, unsure where to set it down.
Every conversation feels mid-sentence, I am late, or early, or wrong entirely.

Is this the place I was meant to be, or just where the door happened to open?
The walls listen but do not answer.
The floor accepts my weight without opinion.

I scan the room for recognition, for a glance that says you belong here.
But belonging seems to hum, at a frequency I cannot hear.

Still, I stay.

Because sometimes the right place is not the room that welcomes you, but the one where you learn how to stand among strangers without disappearing.
That is beautiful. Thank you for putting it here.
 
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