Sport.
A team.
Frenzy.
Flag waving.
Dress ups and colours.
Roaring celebrations.
This one time,
this promise.
Together.
United.
Strangers as one.

What a force is this.
What a thread to hold together
this fragile garment.

Dragging the ordinary to
the extraordinary,
and the dull beat of lives
to significance,
to something
they can believe,
to strange religion
with a tangible god.

 

17/8/2023