Sunday, October 8, 2023

The Hum

The noise around me blends

                into a low hum.

I am usually distracted but

                tonight the airport vibrates;

Like listening to the sounds of the waking forest at sunset.

I am confident I have found a

                connection to my reading.

I am emboldened to sustain my

                hold on the written word.

 

The breaking away happens before I realize it;

                shifting and groaning like cracks in a warming glacier.

My eyes close as I slowly drift into the throng.

They lift me up and carry me away

                like a mosh pit as I abandon the task at hand—the crowd is my master now.

They will not bring me back.

Like Spiderman after saving the train,

                they lower me downward in disbelief and

                stare as I slip into a dreamlike

                state of my own creation.

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