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December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 admin
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New Poetry

I was travelling out of the country when The Tragically Hip held its final Canadian tour, so I was unable to see them that last time. Instead, I had to settle with watching the documentary, Long Time Running. This was a poignant account of the band’s tour, and it evoked in me this poetic reflection.

The Hip

We come together in a raucous farewell –

a refrain of decades

with friends we’ve never embraced.

In mingled sorrow and exaltation,

we cry aloud

and brush liquid joy from shining eyes.

Even as we sing,

We all know what this means.

 

We spread arms, press palms to hearts

and become the chorus.

A woman’s hand cups her chin as she listens.

When the song ends –

As the tragic apprehension takes hold –

Her hand closes in a fist—complete.

Completely.

 

There’s a moment of suspense,

a breath,

a longing to hold on.

The last note hangs in the Kingston night,

echoing to a distant sea

from a dozen crowded squares.

 

And then it fades.

 

The final surrender comes.

The stadium,

the country,

grows still.

 

But it is a stillness of loss,

not sound.

Our cries continue to fill the night.

(These too will have an echo.)

And, dreading the finality of silence,

we struggle to hang on to this moment,

knowing that when it ends,

it ends.

 

And then it ends.

 

Cool night and dew

cling in beads

to vacant seats

and spread a sheen of moonlight

on an empty stage.

 

Kenneth D. Reimer

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