Too Shy To Ask

Inside a busy train station, at the ticket gates,
A young man with a backpack stands there,
Everyone else walks through with ease,
But he doesn't.

He taps his card the wrong way,
The gate stays closed.

Too shy to ask for help,
He stands there pretending to be busy,
Hoping it will open by itself,
While people wait behind him.

Finally a small kid walks up,
Taps correctly,
And passes in one second.

Then he realizes,
It was never complicated,
He just needed to ask.

Photo by @wakucat
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