your way is like water

your way is like water 

fresh to my mind 

it heals my heart again
-Aaron Strumpel

Rugby's song

I stood arm in arm with my brother.
My hand on his shoulder, his hand on my waist,
surrounded by a chorus of manly voices singing
this bar song, and soon my laughter gave way.
I could not contain the joy
of their exuberant frivolity
singing a bar song, "i went to the corner..."
so melodically.
I understood more about my brother then,
with the passion and the silliness,
how could you not want to belong to this?
Burly men, being men,
joined in brotherhood!

I will not forget how we did not simply disperse
after the Iphones were finished capturing the crowd
behind two men, beside, and before
we were surrounded by their sound,
that choir of strength,
bonded by bruises,
a taste of heaven, a holy infusion
of belonging in song,
of enjoying the moment
God gave to be.

May these voices
will be part of the throng
that's song goes on and on and on.