Today
at one point
while standing before
hundreds and hundreds
I wanted to cry.

I was not sad.

I wanted to break out in a rash of tears
and flood the halls and corridors
make the staircases into waterfalls
drown all the land
in salt.

Isaline last time asked
when I cried the last time
and
I could not recall.

Today
at various points
while being carried by the cheering crowds
I wanted to stop
the entire world
and bellow
with the voice of GOD:

                "Stop!
                  This is bullshit!"


But I did not.