#APoemADay - Day 11 - From Jam to Jazz

#APoemADay – Day 11 – From Jam to Jazz

A Journey through traffic to Jazz at Smoothbean, Croydon

A metallic river of red eyes

Snaking through dark concrete streets

The whirr of engines and the clutch of brakes

Stacked in a queue of fallen dominoes

The achievement of Western civilisation

To proliferate to the point of saturation

Till one against the other we fall

Crushed by the mechanising of our humanity

So I sit and wait in this becalmed metal boat

Waiting for the clinking and clanking

To bring me to journeys end

And release me from this concrete clinch

Deliver me to a place warm and snug

Where I can nestle in your hug

And soothe my urban sorrows

With friendship infused tea

I gladly exchange this river of buses

For a stream of soul inspired sounds

Where notes ripple one over the other

In shimmering starlit chordscapes

And lingering melodies imprint memories

Of this moment of innocent refuge

Where children dance and adults smile
Remembering that life can still be a romance.