Day: May 13, 2023

Did you see her dancing in the full moonlight

By the wall of the ancient, crumbled castle,

Whirling and jumping in time to a tune

That only she could hear and a rhythm

Only she could feel?

 

Did you see her naked limbs in the night

The blue light flashing with each

Glorious and mysterious move that

Only you could see?

 

Did you recall the last time you saw

This dance, the last time you thought

This dream was real?

 

When you woke up sweating and tried

To recall her name, remember

Her smile, and searched for her the

In the faces of every crowd?

 

A prevarication of politicians

An allegation of lawyers

A diagnosis of doctors

An alibi of perpetrators

A pretense of actors

A guilt of ministers

A deletion of editors

A celibacy of priests

A wishful of gamblers

A memory of liars

A rationalization of criminals

A guffaw of comedians

An egotism of dictators

An abacus of mathematicians

A conundrum of physicists

A prototype of engineers

A whimsy of writers

A presumption of poets

 

The Two sensed there was a better place

So, they left the Indian Land and all they knew

And drifted west to the Kingdom of the Wind

 

And the Wind smiled and gave them shelter

Pointing South to the Realm of Red Rocks

To make their home where the plains met

the Mountains and all the rivers ran East

 

And the years slipped away as they formed

A new life from their love and helped it grow

In body, mind, and shining soul and sent it

Away on its own mysterious quest

 

And the years slipped some more as they

Weathered life’s peaks and valleys, droughts,

Storms and all manner of sadness and pain

 

And they grew older in time still gazing

Ahead to the mythical place of sunshine

Clear skies and perpetual peace

 

Until the morn they looked back

Along their path and saw the place

Was there all the time, and they

Named it Together.