Luxury

(Also from tonight.)

Luxury
is the ability
to take one
free evening
and sit outside
beneath a starry sky.

Luxury
is having no threat of hail
or bombs
while listening to music
played expertly by ordinary,
everyday people.

How many
chambermaids
have strained to hear
one fallen note
from a violin
while scrubbing their master's pot?

How many millions
of souls
have only
heard the music
of their sighing
while standing at mills
all day?

Luxury.
Is working 9-5
and sampling of the fare
once given only to Kings
and courtiers.