I saw your stretching feet
Distanced miles apart from eyes
Your gaze narrowed by experience
Your stomach fuzzy with the vulnerability
Of some well veiled lies
And was instantly attracted
Or rather distracted
By the emotion in your dance
I pictured an entire episode
Of this swaying
The things we could be saying
But would rather not touch
Don't you think this silence
Is a little too much?
Why have I fastened this smile on?
Like a wandering belt
To shield the things which I have felt.
For You
I have created my own dance
It lacks music and a beat
It is the dance I practice night after night
As I suffer,
You retreat.
It is a dance we both understand
In a privacy, no one can hold
It is a dance I taught myself
When my feet grew tired and cold
This dance will last till morning
I will savor it as heat
Against the nights I know will come
When I will surrender, in defeat.
