Range of Experience

Sit somewhere in a city

Shut your eyes

Earbuds not allowed:

Let the sound wash over you

Peel the layers of it --

Engines

Jackhammers

Birds

Music from cars -- 

And free yourself into it.

Crack open the breastplate

Of the armor you have built

Over a lifetime

Take in all the waves

As the shore does:

Soaking up, letting go

After a time

Open your eyes

Head for the woods,

And repeat.