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THE DANCE
by Jo Coombs

The dancers start to arrive and the music begins.
The swish of cloth echoes across the filling dance-floor.
The lights are still dim, they hide the smiles and grins. People swirl about, heedless of the shadowed door. And they dance in time to the music of their hearts. Fall in love here, where the music must one day die. But that matters not, for who cares when the music starts, How the dance must end, not you and not I.

Some will stay ‘til the end, others leave early in the night. Some hardly known, just passing across the dance-floor, Others are friends and family and will remain to first light. But all of us must leave and venture through that dark door. I sometimes wish that I could leave the dancers behind, And walk through the doorway to the night’s gentle peace. But the music still calls to me, calms my heart, soothes my mind, And as long as that remains true, by leaving there’ll be no release.
submitted: 09/10/03

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