{"sf1_id":959888,"sf2_id":"0mvoVlWn","title":"The Bar...","author":"Jiblits","words":315,"posted_at":"2016-01-30T03:48:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Poetry","Short Story","bar","slice of life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/959888-the-bar","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvoVlWn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/df/cf/dfcfb654-3608-463b-a5b6-b162a74ba30f","description":"Visited a bar for once, was an interesting night. Learned alot about strangers now friends.","content":"The Bar...\n\n  \n\n**The Bar...**  \n  \nAs I sit in my chair, surrounded by thoughts openly spoken\n\nI hear only whispers among the many with hearts broken\n\nLiving in times long past that led to this place\n\nOf there former selves, even on the highest of shelves, there isn't a trace\n\nWhat goes on in a voice that has no emotion\n\nThe stories seem the same, filled with shame by name, all missing some kind of devotion\n\nTo even the smallest of concern for where they went wrong\n\nThey simply nod along to the same ol' song\n\n\"Too bitter, cold the feelings would be\" they say\n\nFear-filled to truly see, each wishes to one day, get carried away\n\nAmong the lights flashing, the feelings falling fast\n\nThe mirrors make emotions run high, as unclear visions bring forward the past\n\nTo the bartender, father time in a way, he is the main lender\n\nFor the forgetful, the price is easy, worry free\n\nHe's a friend to pay for the future you don't want to see\n\nHe stalls the moments amid a fog with each glass\n\nDay or night, if the money's right, he gives you another pass\n\nNever asking why, but always open to your reason\n\nOthers like him are around, every town, every season\n\nNeeded to those lost...life for company seems shared for the final cost\n\n  \n\nThe music is as numbing as the shots taken\n\nEyes connect, most quickly looking away, as if the meeting was mistaken\n\nLiquor their shared cure, many have anything but a smile\n\nSobering this atmosphere is as I just sit a while...\n\n  \n\n\"An ear is always what I wish to give, as long as I'm able, as long as I live...\"\n\n  \n\nEven for the lost, the story should be heard clear\n\nLife in it's own right is just a reason, doing less to live is only one fear\n\n  \n\n  \n\n---Thanks for Reading---\n\n ---Always---\n\n  \n  \n\n"}