Love Song VIII: Dancin

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Dancin
(To Our 1st Party- 1/08)

1.

ages ago

I wished

a secret wish
on sweet sixteen
birthday candles

I wished

I could dance
my sweet sixteen
with you

wished

us two girls
could dance
our rite of passage
together

when
the needle dropped
and the
music played

dance

just dance
like any
natural born lovers
would

all
night
long.


2.

for
so many years

when
the needle dropped
and the
music played

it was
only
your name

I wanted to see
on my
dance card

it was
only
you

forever
you

I’d set
my heart
on

you

I wished
would come

dance
with me

wished
would come

fill
my arms

fill
my life

for always.


3.

instead
when
the needle dropped

time

danced
between us

time

filled
my arms

with
an
eternity

of
undanced
dances

of
hollow
desert
years

without
the music
of
you.


4.

now

after years
lost
and
long
with
waiting

tonight

my wish
of sweet sixteen
comes true

tonight
this night
we dance

when the
needle drops
and the
music plays

we dance
our rite of passage
long denied

dance
our dance

at last

two women
smiling in each other’s eyes
dancin

two women
movin and groovin
dancin

two women
fearless and free
dancin

two women
natural born lovers
together
forever

dancin

all
life
long.

6/15/08