the awe of it all

I came alone

Alone so I could be anonymous

Anonymous so I could dissolve

Nameless into the darkness of the back row

House lights suddenly bright

My face alight in a sea of unknowns

Their lyrics explode toward me

A supernova of sound in slow motion

They said nothing is final

That this wasn’t finished

That this would be co-created between us

That after the nervous laughter and the uncomfortable silences

There would come a moment

They stood standing on stage

Silently suspended in the awe of it all

Palms open eyes wide

Glistening

Staring out into the strobe-lit faces of strangers

Strangers whose heart's they had ripped open

Stranger's whose heart's were laid bare on their chairs

Strangers whose faces gave them calm

They say there is so much peace to be found in people's faces

I feel every breath of every atom of every cell

I feel the unknown being of being known

Of being here in this moment, of being there in their moment

In the only moment that ever is or ever was or ever will be

They stood

I sat

We were, breathing

In a moment of living poetry

In a moment of pure presence