DANCE WITH ME

DANCE WITH ME

Dance with me proudly on the ballroom floor,
We will do the bossa nova while the jazz band plays the score.
And we’ll fill the night with romance, flirt shamelessly with the moon
And waltz down the veranda in evening’s sweet perfume.

Dance with me proudly and without fear
On a New Year’s Eve on some Paris street.
The world and its charms alive in our arms,
The time it passes swift and fleet.

Swing your partner high and low,
Serenade me long and slow.
The world made new against your skin
‘Til the music stops then starts again.

Dance with me in the garden’s dew,
The scent of the flowers and the scent of you
That intermingle, an olfactory treat,
My dreams fulfilled and my days complete.

Dance with me blindly, man to man,
Cheek to cheek and hand in hand.
Free of the guilt and the shame of the past,
We trip the light fantastic and hold each other fast.

Dance with me a quiet waltz in the hills of Tennessee,
Or in the cabin of some ocean liner drifting on the sea.
Dance with me above the water, dance with me along the sand.
Dance with me my whole life long, dance while we still can.

-Bruce Potts
Copyright 2008
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