An Unlikely Place

13/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



I didn’t go looking for inner peace

Or anything like that

I didn’t really think I needed it

Because I was fine



I got through each day

Turned up for all my shifts at work

Did all that was required of me

But was that enough?



When I walked through the doors

To that tiny theatre space

I felt a sense of calm

As I took my back row seat



I was nestled in the corner

The outside world far away

Listening to the act on stage

Telling jokes about the absurdity of life



And as I sat in that small dark corner

I laughed and I cried as I laughed,

Happy tears and sad tears

That stained my cheeks as they ran



As the house lights came on

I wiped my cheeks dry

And gathered up my belongings

Preparing to face the world again



As I watched the crowd disperse

I realised they were completely unaware

Of the transformation that had befallen me

In that hour in the dark



I knew that when the walls closed in

And the world became too much

I could hide in that back corner

The let the dark wrap around me tight