People sitting on a bus
All sitting in the same vehicle
Yet complete strangers
The girl who sits in the back
and looks out the window
thinking about selfish escapes
and leaving her demons behind
Trapped in the mortal world
Sits next to
The man who lost his wife
that one cold night when
the roads were icy and he was driving
just a little too fast
Who sits behind
The pretty blonde girl
who is on her way home from
The double shift she worked at her second job
that she needs to pay the bills for her and
the child she wasn't ready to have
Who sits across from
The boy with the piercings
and arms canvases in art
pictures that represent the emotion he felt
when his dad left him.
And if you had to pick just one,
Who would you say had it the worst?