POEM: The Concert in the Park

She went among them like a ghost
filtering through the crowd as if
immaterial

she went looking
and found no one she knew
pushed around
she kept slipping through them,
the speakers pushed down
her heart with crushing booms

numb, she was almost happy
being lost, being
unfound
yet the search continued
she was looking for another soul
to transcend this material world
and yet
once she came back to earth
away from the euphoria of the crowd
away from the bodies closing in on each other
away from the screams and the sweat
she'd be just a mortal body
wondering where her spirit went;
wondering if there's life
beyond herself.