Sound judgement dictates
We go for a walk the days
While shopping for shoes I shouldn’t have been
Shoes too fancy for anything in these parts
An omen -I mean, a song- wafted on and on overhead
Music too loud as usual, but it caught my conscience
I could barely make out the words, as airily whispered as they were
Some friend apologizing to another for the weather or for using much too much
Electricity
You steal
Scenes abandoned and almost forgotten
You magnify
Memories faint but revival-worthy
You help
Hearts fighting yet weakened
You build
Brotherly-love mortared with hope
You. Needed. Here. There.