Dance with me

There are a lot of memories I have now of my life; this is one of the most poignant...

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I was the aged in the song that you took pity on.

You were the dancing girl, the love lode, and priceless.

Death was your partner in the moment all yours as we danced the moments away on the dance floor of life.

Life was your excuse to let it all go and give yourself all that you were.

As we danced I found that I was but a moment of your beauty that you shared

As around and around we went, faster and faster until I couldn’t hold on to you anymore.

Letting you go, I came to rest; and held out my hands to you to come back to me.

But you were gone from my arms; flown away, to a place I could not follow.

Time is a funny bedfellow, it gives so much, and yet it gives nothing at all.

You were timeless to me, and touched my soul, saying: I am not here for long, take me now, I’m all yours.

But as I reached for you I found that you were the quicksilver and gone too soon to be reached for.

I remember you now, after all this time. Yes, I remember all of you.

You were my divine. You were my timeless moment. You were all my moments as we danced with our hearts in the timeless moment.

You’ve flown away now, like so many other moments that came and danced with me.

But I shall carry you forever in my heart, like you wanted me to when you came to me to be claimed.

(In that game of hide and seek where I found you and you found me.)

You checked out of some muddy hotel and left me behind. Yes, that’s what you did.

How can I forgive you for that?

Oh, but how can I not?

Love is a strange yearning I think; it plays on no string I can tune, and yet it comes to me to be played.

I wanted to hold on to you, but you were gone, long before you came to me. I was never there for you, except as those arms reaching out to you as you let them go.

Yes, I’ll always remember you, as that girl that came up to me on the dance floor, and said: dance with me…

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