After the circus leaves

justam

If I sit in the middle of that feeling we know
that feeling we knew
that feeling that lives best in-between the air we breathe
and the sounds we make
the sounds we hear
if I dare to sit in it without distraction
feel it deeply
(don't look left, right, up, or down)
I know love exists!
I know it
I know it
I know it
people sing songs about love like this
they sing about it, because it fills hearts!
they think about it, because it fills minds!
it exists
it exists
it lives
and I wonder, why couldn't it be just us?
why did it have to be us plus a dozen other people?
plus a hundred other people?
a thousand other people?!
to be in love in the middle of all of this has been like
trying to feel peace in a blender that moves from the setting of
chop, to grate, to grind, to stir, to puree, to whip, to mix,
to blend, to frappe, and finally to liquefy!!!!
oh, oh, oh, oooowwwwwwww!!!!!!
but, don't look left, right, up, down, forward, back, or out,
and I know love existed for quite a while