Stranger

I’m leaning back on the wall
My vest is stuck with sweat
Heart still loud
Veins fat in my arms
Joints loose.

Hands are behind my back
One knee up, foot on the wall
Eyes locked
On you
Watching you twist.

Thumping slabs of drum rock
Beat a raw fat throb
Dancefloor, heaving
Lasers
Slice

Friendly face!
I’ll find you-
Chill out?-
Yeah!-
Hands grasp, smiling inside

Foot drops. Searching, lasers
Wrong legs. Wrong hair. Heart drops
Turning, slowly, to the thump
Whump whump whump whump
Tchaka

Into the flesh, sliding, pushing
Eyes, feet, licking mouths
Timing steps to clock the flow
Finding space
Alone

Down, below the monster beams
In the pit, sweating dreams
Carried up the roaring wave
The Master, the Obeying Slave
Temple of the Coloured Lights
Supersonic Acolytes
Lost in tunnels, screaming, blind
Bodies pure, connected mind

Free
Loose
Raw

Then the blue sea parts, black struggling
Glitter beams sprinkle
Face appears
The hair, that top, black PVC
Our eyes lock
As you look at me

And the crowd drops away.