I’ve stepped through the electric
Metal truth indicator
I’m clean, no obscene
Objects stuck to my being.
Walk through a black crowded scene
And make my way to the bar
One beer tipped hard no holds barred
No regard for my liver tonight
Tonight is reprieve healing scars
Travel once again through the energized
Black wearing teeth glaring
Yet blank distorted faces
I’m not here to make friends
I’m here to melt places people and things
To feel strings tie wings make me feel
Everything
The lights dim a black wave moves the room
I plant my feet close my eyes
Feel my body swoon
Then a tune floods stale air
Hits me deep lifts the room
Lifts my worries and fears
And the people around leave the ground
And I feel like I am alone with the sounds
Hits me straight in the gut
like a shot off round
And I feel my own feet glued to the ground

The only thing that’s ever
been clever enough to break my
Tough interior and inferior self
Is the feeling of music flooding my soul
The only thing that can ever fill that hole
Is the sounds of notes mingling sweetly
In a pleasant dance that swallows me whole

~kb