Leaf

Tonight, I'm going to dance in my dreams.
          I'm going to scream the name of the one who reached into my being and stole my soul
and made her...
                      ... <3 and mine a single entity resembling something from the repertoire of a performance artist.

Tonight our breath mingles with the inchoate darkness.
A canopy if a zillion purple rubies waltzing and melting in the black skies - a magical gloaming.

I have waited, breathless, for a song. Loveshorn
frail motes of romance dance in the rays of the morn
and these dreams every night are rituals
a holy artifact, a voodoo doll.

           I dream
           While
           I dance.

          I dream
          of the
          dance.

          I dance
          While
          I dream.