The Saddest Thing I Have Ever Seen.......off screen

We walked along the multi-coloured carpet
eyes down, concentrating hard
not to drop my large popcorn and supersize pepsi
I thought I was just going to see a film.

The lights had already dimmed
and trailers were rolling
my friends nudged and pushed me up the steps
"Get the very back".

Then I saw you.

Through the gloom and shadow
in the very corner
a lonely look-out
on the people below.

You saw me too, of this I'm sure
A beady eye darted my way
from under your long, straight, black grease.

We were so alike:
same age(roughly), same sex(male), same clothes(camouflage)
yet on either side of me
sat minds I knew
......You were alone.

The film begins but there's already a fictional work in my head
I've given you parents, a house, a room and tastes.

How can you move so little?
fingertips on your temples.

The cinematography is actualy quite good
but your noir outline
pushes everything from my head
end film! end!

Credits roll and you're up
whip lash down the red-lit steps
I grab my jacket and follow
"Hold your 'orses" my companions cry.

Against the grain of the multi-coloured carpet
you zip up a maroon coat and dig hands in deep
reaching the huge glass entrance you push out
turn of a corner and gone.

I'll never see you again.

On the way back to the car question marks fight for supremacy
Name? Age? Any friends? Any family? Any interests?
ANYTHING?
you were such a weirdo, outsider, single being
"Aahhh it's cold" a voice says beside me.
In the car
Shut, shut, shut
tears gather on my lids
ready to tickle my frost-biten cheeks
an epicentre of feeling in my chest
radiating pain all over.

"Whatcha think of it?"
as wheels set in motion
"Yeah" I stuttered

Nothing has ever made me feel as sad.

You are the loneliest person I have ever seen.