Night in a Disco


I wonder why I’m here

when I can see so clearly,

how the time’s miss-spent.

 

Some girls push past

with loves which last

as long as music fast,

keeps all joy jerking

puppet-wise to unseen ties,

and psychedelic lights

effect hallucinatory hues

infusing all.

In tune with sound

as round and round

they’re twirled,

now red,

now white,

now green,

the scene all animation,

but expressions blank.

 

I sink a numbing drink

thinking to edge despair

into some corner, where

the spare is of another kind,

where I can find a fellow

mind with body sweet,

and time to meet

the unexpected.

 

And though I know

fulfilment lies elsewhere,

a pair of lovely legs

begs for attention of a

different sort, where thought

is less important, than intent,

and talking something for the old:

 

like me.

 

© James Rainsford

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