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I Watch People At Airports

from Chat Room Days by Champion Leader

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When I watch people at airports...

a soft gathering of hellos and goodbyes
there is no one living in between here
but moving on and going on
all this world's mothers and fathers
in a comely dance together
in long halls of gray slanting sunlight
subdued
often broken by a roaring
jet shadow
which gradually lifts in a
slow-growing arc towards
heaven destination

and in these halls
a murmur of voices
a murder of faces
a hurry of motion
side glances returned with
a swift looking-away
no love kindled
only isolate

what will become of these halls
when the empire decays?
the haunted corridors
of a future unknown
where the barbarians who
knock at the gates
have finally come
home

When I watch people at airports...
a soft gathering of hello's and goodbye's
there is no one living in between here
but moving on and going on
all this world's mothers and fathers
in a comely dance together
in long halls of gray slanting sunlight
subdued

and in these halls
a murmur of voices
a murder of faces
a hurry of motion
side glances returned with
a swift looking-away
no love kindled
only isolate

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from Chat Room Days, released May 2, 2016

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Champion Leader Beaufort, South Carolina

J. Bozeman, of Luxury and They Sang As They Slew makes music under the borrowed moniker "Champion Leader", which itself is a name given to Mary the Mother of God.

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