The Wallflower

She pledges allegiance to the punch bowl...and maybe the chip table too...
She glides around unnoticed, content without hullabaloo.

She won’t recite jokes or demand all attention,
but silence is certainly not her intention.

For a wallflower’s mind is of colorful terrain,
at times may be hard to escape or explain.

If people could only just crack that soft shell,
they’d find that she has many a story to tell!

Erase former judgements, it isn’t polite,
but do engage her and see, she’ll respond without fright.

While solitude preferred, she understands that it’s healthy
to exercise sociability and though she but stealthy...

Round the perimeter of the room with a sweet disposition,
she meets a new friend each night, an admirable mission.

So don’t let her fool you, because “shy” no, not quite.
But just like a masterpiece--need no extra spotlight.

Attendees claim boredom as balloons start to shrink
but the Wallflower’s not tired, as many might think.

She traipses on home, alone and alive,
to rave with herself, for it’s there where she’ll thrive.