Knox Now I’m Wondering
Knox Now I’m Wondering
The unsaid promise of my old life
was that by renouncing popular culture
and never rooting in one place
for very long, my horizons would expand,
my spirit free from the influence
of wealthy tastemakers in steel
towers, my mind liberated
to nurture the connection between
human beings. But now I’m wondering:
what sense it makes to turn our
backs on something because it’s a thing
shared across a vast body of humanity?
How is it not human connection to be
in a stadium with thousands of other people
who love the same thing, all of us
lifting our voices to the sky together,
warming each other under a blanket of stars?
What a fellowship that must be.
I imagine it seems in that moment like there’s nothing
we couldn’t do if we approached everything
with the same togetherness—end hunger;
world peace; equality for all. The list of things I want
from my new life just grew by one.