Life Dances

Life feels forever beyond Youth’s grasp

Flitting away faster than sound 

Out beyond seductive opportunity

While Life dances just beyond reach 

Coveted adulthood comes to call

Imagination promises unfettered joys

Reality brings indefinable disappointments

While Life dances just beyond reach.

Careers and commitments demand

Sacrifice of freedom for survival 

Pinning the spirit agonizingly in place

While Life dances just beyond reach

Until one day the end comes to call

In violent upheaval or sickness’ stealth

Or simply from accumulated exhaustion

And Life just dances off just out of reach

Wait not for ‘One day’ to come calling

Let not Life stay beyond your reach

Stretch and leap, and lunge for it

Dance with it, never mind your feet

For whether you’re a two-step champion

A waltz’er, prefer modern, rock, even Swing

It matters not how smooth you move your feet

Long as you live your life a’whirling

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