Laughter

Pulling me in close

Letting the obscurities go

Pushing away the fear

Engulfing all that is near

Bringing me back to radiance

Avoiding all the melancholy resistance

It surrounds me

Fills me with thoughtless speech

It arouses me

Inconsiderate of all sullenness

It grows and fills every layer

And burrows its way deeper

Unable to restrain

I grab on

It guides me with a newfound sight

Perplexing me by the view

It contorts my frame

Leaving me breathless

Breathless but viable

Breathless but more than animate

And it’s gone

As suddenly as it had come

But it leaves me with a gift of what once was

Its charity so pure

Of a satisfying smile on my face
And a glimmering jewel left in my heart.

Together

A hot summer day, I feel a chill run through me.

So many people surround me, I can’t move

But then I hear it,

It runs through me.

So many people around me,

But together, we move.

I don’t know him, I don’t know her

Strangers under the same sun

Where they’ve come from, I do not know

But then we hear it.

How strange it is to not know,

But together, we move.

We are surrounded.

Him by me, Her by him.

Us by the words, We by the beat.

But then I hear it.

Different voices, Different keys,

But together, we move.

I hear the different voices and different keys,

Hear it become our voice.

I feel the strength of us,

Feel the ground beneath the thousand jumping feet.

Surrounded by us, the music, and the beat.

Surrounded by him and her, becoming We.

A hot summer day, the chill runs through me.

It runs through me, and I hear it.

It runs through me, and I feel it.

So many people surround me, and together we move.