At a Coffee Shop

While applying for jobs, I have spent a countless amount of time in coffee shops.  I have enjoyed the smell of coffee brewing and the feeling I am not alone in the stress of accomplishing my goals.  Taking a step back to stop and, in this case, smell the coffee beans, I've come to notice and appreciate the people that surround me while I sit here.  Too often we judge someone without looking closely at ourselves to find maybe we are the ones that are or should be judged.  

Walking into a coffee shop, at first glance, one may see

People on their computers sipping their coffee

However the longer you sit there, the image, it may change

You notice more the people and how, to you, they may seem strange

There’s the coffee sipping “hipster” with his headphones in

Head bobbing to his music, oblivious to an onlookers grin

The noisy chatter of a high school girl, and the gossip she must give

At the next table is an elderly couple, who find it offensive

A businessman walks in sporting his fancy suit

And the sweat trickles from the young man who is in a job pursuit

There is a younger couple who more than occasionally flirt

And the people behind the counter are laughing as they work

And as I said before strange are the people you see here and there

But then again who was the strange person who took the time to stare?