Take Your Seat
Pattay
Expectancy fills these seats. They are not empty, they hold possibilities and memories; they are aspiring opportunities and fond recollections. People have sat in them and laughed and cried, cheered and booed, sang along and nodded their heads in agreement and disagreement. Dozens or hundreds or maybe even thousands and tens of thousands of people have perched on the edges of these seats in hopeful expectation and maybe as many have slumped back against them in despair and disappointment.
Without people they form a pattern of austere simplicty, any hopefulness hidden behind a facade of forebearance. If an empty chair is one waiting to be filled, a row of chairs is a small society on the verge of evolution. And this grid of chairs, assembled in orderly rows and lines, is a future nation. No, these are not empty chairs. They hold possibilities and memories.
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