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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