Dancer On A Rope Bridge

There is a bridge

Between you

And me.

It is a rope bridge.

There is a breeze across it.

There is sweet water beneath it.

There is thick green on either side of it.

Step out in bare feet,

Feel the wet boards,

The rope railings love your hands.

Come across half way and

Meet me there--

Please kiss me.

No.

Again.

Over and over...

There is a reason I love a dancer.

There is a reason I wore this dress

Just for you.

Let the world shift and fall away.

We can wrap around each other's bodies like a rope bridge,

Like falling,

Like us in the thin air,

In love

In~tense

Insensible

In a

Wet and spinning world,

Us two,

Like figurines on a music box,

Toes curled and

Carried away on the current we have given ourselves up to.

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