Revival

It's a band piece

weird, I know

it's from last year

and we only played it in concert once

but it means a lot to me

it reminds me of a lot.

Of Webtoons and authors and demented circuses

of my childhood music

klezmer

and memories and nostalgia.

It drags me in and erases the present,

until its only me and the music and the past.

The music makes me feel at home

I relax

I dissolve into the flow of it

it sweeps me away

until I'm nothing but a mere leaf on the current

until I can evaporate and be someone else

it's like reading;

I get to hide from reality

and immerse myself in worlds that I like

with people that I like

and choices that are better than the ones people around me make.

I listen to music to escape from reality

to feel better

to revive.