Cakewalk

We danced and danced
Till your lungs gave in and our feet swelled up.
In halls so empty, we fluttered like butterflies
With wings of joy and felicity.
Legs spreading like a sheen over the floors
Winding like stairs up the days of yore.
Hands ruffling through the winds,
Moulding and forming virtual shadows
Of swallows and birds not known.
Rolling in the deepest waters,
Submerging and diving.
Swaying like the flutter wheels,
Picking up and letting go;
Vehemently clashing and
Clemently unifying
Like poles apart and close.
Tapping the beneaths of the earth as we go,

Bending and breaking from our hips to toe.
Gaiting and galloping;
Waltzing and cakewalking through the rooms,
Gleaming and glazing like fallen chandeliers.
Fingers hovering in ways unbeknown,
Poised and steady in frames that shone.
Gyrating in infinite loops,
Oscillating in the hula hoops.
Dancing brought us the joys life didn’t offer,
And took away the agony it did.
Spinning on the thumps of our heartstrings,
With no fears of the demons within.
Frisking under the stars,
And leaping ever so close to them.
Magic and myth frolicking out of our souls,
So thirsty for what falls from their shores.