DANCING TO THE MUSIC

We have been like dancers
under the lights and music
of our geography.
Themes are intricately interwoven
sweet and bitter mystery
in soft and hard driving
choreography
with you as principals
and I the bit player
in classic background dress
the imp of change
who rides the winds of east and west
and cries while laughing
because he knows how close
love steers to our essential tragedy.

And so we dance to music
not of our invention
though we would.
We cannot stop for fear
the silence would kill somehow
because we are, after all
just dancers to the music.

(My Wild Colonials)