I do believe the music
Is a touch of ageless jazz
And the pieces fuse and intermingle
In the center of a vast empty ballroom
And reverberate from the distant walls
Echoing down through the ancient corridors
As fickle time runs quickly out
To gather in fresh air
From cooling breezes
Beauty courts ugliness
As the wall-flower becomes a corsage
Venus is dating Adam
And Eve is left with the punch bowl
Eternity is the partner of Folly
Coming together
Falling apart
To and fro
Yoyo
Slow dancing
Through
Day and night
Moonlit Angel
Entangled intimately
With the ghost of darkness
Omnipresent party
Twirling throughout the spacious universe
Like a spinning top
Sunrise to sunset
Waxing and waning
Around and around and around
Again and again and over again
Eclipse the tail of the comet
Coming and going
The dance never stops
The dance of the heavens
The sun and the moon
Together
Dancing star dust
Fleeting light
That sparks like lightening
The fallen heart
And sweeps clean
the cobwebs of fancy
Ephemeral essence
Divine dignity
Slow solemnity
Like a funeral dirge
Or joyous tidings
And fast laughing
Of a matrimonial celebration
The dance of the tree
Blowiing and bowing
The dance of the butterflies
Twitting and flitting about
The dance of the streams flowing
The dance of the mud melting
The dance of the rain and the snow
The dance of the newborn and the dying
The dance of spring and fall
Of winter and summer
The dance of flies and birds
The dance of decay and renewal
Time lost in the swirling windstorms
The dust that collects
Is wiped up
To settle yet another time
Somewhere else
The dance never stops
Never ever
by Hugh M. Lewis
Moments
1983
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