In a Quality Bar

In the quiet darkness you can feel
non-verbal communication between yourself
and the people sitting next to you and the bartenders
Non-verbal communication at heart mutually respectful and respectful of God
Non-verbal communication worth a thousand words because words lie
You have the good luck the bartenders and the customers are not low-inner-lifes
Never is heard or felt a discouraging heretical thought or word
lashing out at doctrine in the name of some cause like the right to be drunk
You go home thinking human nature is such
that one beer at the bar is more of a high
than being home or alone and drinking five
thinking of how a bar can be like church but better
The movements in the darkness here and there of the bartender
like the movements of a ball on a pool table
are like music for the eyes,
a music TV or isolation can't supply