I’m going for a walk right now

Not list’ning to your pleas.

I know you want my presence there’s just

Not enough of me.

A lovely village band is playing

Salsa in the square.

I’d rather not be anywhere but 

Better here than there.

Suddenly I’m far from you just

Drinking in the sound,

Then something wells within me

Just like ecstasy unbound.

A voice rings out among the crowd

As if singing to me.

Angelic and dissociative

I feel I’m finally free.

I take it in for hours, surely,

Could have been for days—

I lose myself in nourishment.

The soul kind—I’m amazed.

You cannot duplicate the joy

A lovely town like mine

When everyone walks everywhere

And there’s no sense of time.