As if communication

Wasn’t hard enough

Now with masks covering faces

It really is tough

Are they smiling, frowning,

Or cursing you out

Are they happy to see you

Or wearing a pout

From a distance

Comes a muffled sound

As five different people

Shrug and look around

“Were you talking to me?”

“Were you even talking?”

Thoroughly confused

They keep on walking

Mumbling choice words

To themselves