Non-verbal conversaion

Non-verbal Conversation

I grin subtly
Organisational mess
Clutters up the spacious hallway

"Substantially insufficient" I thought
And placed another thick book
On the shelf behind me

I felt uncomfortably comfortable
As he walked in the room
Appearing from behind his successors photograph

It seems that the silences
Have at last been read
As he begins to make drunken sense
Of the words he repeats in his head.

"Nothing understands a misunderstanding
Better than I understand us."
I nod.

Maybe we should have lingered longer in silence.