Dream Dancer

Dream Dancer.

Dream dancer dream on
The steps are new
Suede shoes slip on
Black and white Italian hue
Calibrated carrera Marble
Chess board of fated meeting
I am in your arms
Dizzy amorous
Faintly dipping,
slipping.

You whirl and bow
Forget frenzy of my ardour
Neglect to catch my fall
As the next dance partner
Slips a delicate palm
And sweeps you off
Into primaeval Eden anew
Each time before
The ethical fall
Unto vistas of brilliant hue.

I stay on sorrows suspension
Stranded on the floor
The moment reels, walls walk away,
Ceiling whirls...
The tiles gleam sad tears
Of strategic resistance
Decried...
This torture needless
But my love
All strategy is heedless
When one partners
Her dream in the
Dance of love.

My Italian marble floors
Are show stoppers killing motion.

Your gaze travels much further
Than my blurred vision
And my cold hard reality
Flash freezes sweet emotion.

I cannot sink in shame
For the ground floor of sophisticated artifice
Won't allow entry.
Admission denied
The dance floor emptied.
Jubiliant dancers flock out
And sleep my waiver
Comes tumbling in...
Tonight at least.

Tomorrow's ballroom
Presents the
Dream dancer in
Brand new façades
Same old heartaches.

Stilettos of passion
Sharpening to rigorous ardour
stab soft hearted wishfulness
As you and I
Waltz wading through patterns of
Pain.

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