where am I again?

-there I was 

at a leaving do 

for two strangers

two strangers

I never even knew;

a feast of food

before me and 

unfamiliar faces

all around;

I was bound 

to retreat
before tears were shed, 

tears of the two strangers
two strangers that I just met

before I lacked the graces

to say the right words

-the words blurred-

-they went unheard-
there i was;

impending departures

speeches and emotion;

not mine, not belonging to me

but I was going through the motions 

as I sat there

as I so often do 

and wondered

as I so often do 

where am? where am I again?
where am I?
I wish I knew...