Anonymity for history?

I do not want to be seen.

(Can you appreciate what I mean?)
I want to be invisible among the crowd,
not loudly laughing, not outstanding,
not too hushened, not too loud,
not the one with blue-burning eyes,
or the rabbit-in-headlights look of suprise;

I wish to engage with history....
so many things I desire to see
and to be
a part of them,
absorb them;
and I ask myself:

just when
will I take myself back to earlier London,
to Waterloo Bridge,
Londinium,

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poem by Tara McH
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