Thursday, August 1, 2024

she dances 2014

 

if she dances

it isn't with me

the slow grind of it

torture to my imagination

 as I wonder who her partner is

she is a vague shape

I see when I close my eyes at night

a memory of a dark figure

I recall from long ago

if he dances I barely perceive it

 like the shadow in a dark room

there yet not so complete

 I can make it out in the Twilight

the shape of who she dances

with vaguer still

no face to put to the shape

 no voice to hear

 only her siren song

set lingering in the mist

her  eyes as deep as mystic caves

glittering from some light beyond the dark

 not sunlight or moonlight

perhaps some light she emits

 all from herself

to which men like me are drawn

 like moths


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