rumours

others are speaking
so silently
that everyone hears them.
rumours!

a silence
that waits, motionless, alert, ready to jump
to pounce, the moment you turn your back.
the silence of rumours

you look at their eyes
trying to hear
what they are not saying to you.
rumours
about you

you leave the room.
in the washroom
you laugh,
laugh hard
(everyone thinks you are crying!)

everyone knows the details
except you,
you laugh because the rumours are about you
and yet, you are the only one who do not know the details
you only know that the rumours are true!