My Evening With Down For Five
 Daisy E. Vest 2008 

 I got there and slid onto a barstool, stage right of the band.
 A few last tweaks of audio and strings, and some cold drinks set
 aside, made them good to go.

 Into the very first licks, the atmosphere immediately thickened with
 energy shooting a fiery bolt of lightening into the air.
 The ceiling broke wide open and the floor dropped out.
 Shaking from head to toe, I floated up off my seat, and found myself
 suspended only by the gravity of the force of sound.

 Shocked by the power closing in on all sides, an instant flash of
 electric current touched my racing blood and sent a heated surge into
 my veins.

 Hypnotized by a constant, static buzz, the heavy, solid bass beat
 penetrated in my bones. The vicious pounding reverberated throughout
 my being that shook me loose from my skin.

 My mind no longer recognized the altered state I’d transcended to.
 Though my vision still seemed clear, I noticed the band had left the 
stage and drifted around me into my range of touch.

 They continued to play fiercely on the fretted finger boards as they
 stretched the volume of their vocal chords.
 Looking directly into their faces I saw the sweat and blood of passion
 soaring them up to multiple levels much higher than my own. They
 looked back at me and saw how I needed to fly.

  They escorted me up to the top of the highest mountain I’d ever been to.  
There I screamed and shouted at the top of my lungs. There I 
released the anchors and weights that tie me down in the day. There
 I smiled and I laughed and experienced a new sense of freedom.

 Somehow they played their songs from the deepest depths of their human souls.
 Somehow their spirits rocked from the earth’s core to the highest 
 heavens. Somehow that night they took me with them.

 I slid off the barstool, stage right of the band and went home.
 I’ll never forget “My Evening With Down For Five.”

 

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