Community

I wrote this after a Koffin Kats' show earlier in 2022.

 Community 

Last night I was among friends

in a crowd of strangers.

 

We enter into the venue

dressed in various garments of black.

We get our drinks, 

jest with the bartenders.

We stand in our own groups

around hightop tables 

or leaning against the bar.

 

A one-man-bad takes the stage,

some of us gather around

some of us stay put.

But we all watch, listen, revel in

this musician who is honest about life, 

and we understand him.

 

The headlining band takes the stage

and most of us gather up front.

The music starts and we all move in rhythm

bouncing off of each other, laughing, 

falling, and getting back up again.

 

We are lost in the moment

of another night of music

and the comradery that comes with it.

*****