Time and Again

All the many voices swirl around the room

some conversations are audible

but mostly a bundle of talking blooms

There’s the high pitch of the giddy woman sitting at the bar's end

and there is the baritones of the burly man

expounding on about a contend

While the muted television monitors play

showing voiceless mouths speaking with scrolling words

making little sense ...

however, it’s fine – there is no need to relay

Liquor rules the moment and shades the mind

There’s an entertainer singing his song

playing his guitar

no one is really listening

it’s just another gig – he sees no wrong

There’s occasional and scattered clapping -  

the sentiment seems more a courtesy

of guilty pleasures snapping

Beer flows from the taps and over the glass and lips - glistening

The man in the corner glowers a menacing stare

A pretty lady sits alone swaying to the music without a care

Conversations abound

Round and round and round

There's a serious couple having the talk

There's two other groping lower and higher

trying to burst into a lusting fire

And always - always one loner

who speaks only to his thoughts

While the night gathers her children in wrought 

For its about passing the night away

time and again

there is one cat who goes astray.