the crowd gets up on their feet,
then one person starts to float
above everyone else,
as crowd dances and doesn’t pay attention,
and the person that floats high up into the trees,
then further into the mountains,
can no longer see or distinguish anyone else,
they all look like ants down there,
they tell themselves,
but they want to dance with everyone else,
they want to have fun and enjoy
what little time they have,
so they dance by themselves,
high in the mountains where no one can see,
it’s not quite the same,
they admit to themselves,
but for goodness sake, they forgot how to get down
Fred Aiken Writing 