What is The Music?


			I'm awake -
			What is that?
			Consciousness - ?
			Drifting,
			Dreaming...
			The world slowly spins by -
			People walk in front and behind -
			The crowd weaving intricately:
			Gaps opening just in time
			For one to stride through...
			I continue -
			Walking slowly,
			Straight ahead -
			Gaps open,
			I need not alter my stride:
			A subconscious dance of society.

			Wonder at things physical -
			Faces intriguing -
			So many different folds and features.
			Eyes piercing clouded sight -
			Focusing on pin-points -
			The rest, fogged.

			Crowds murmur,
			Voices echoing,
			Clattering,
			Washing through each other -
			They reach me in a state
			Of alert semi-consciousness:
			A mind crisp in action,
			Yet only a little above awake.

			I am included in a conversation -
			My mind engages a different gear
			And I exit the mystical...
			The conversation leaves me -
			And I slowly and somewhat gladly
			Move back into wonder
			And pleasant incomprehension.
			Unaware,
			Oblivious,
			I waltz.



© R. A. W. S. Clarke

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