A salmon sun slips shifting the setting, <br />When like a light love sheds radiance <br />On life’s dark days casting clouds to bay, <br />And from a parched peak water falls white roaring <br />At the basin vomiting at its mouth. <br />Charmed by nature’s rainbow colours, <br />Hope and love in limitless patience break <br />The captive chains with joy that leaps <br />Those prison walls and spins like a pigeon <br />Around the Dog Star on guard, <br />And while the hour hands inch in sun and shade <br />Time ticks love’s dreams of immortality <br />Where grab and greed and lust and lies hold <br />No sway save for the gold standard of truth, <br />Where honest hearts hallmarked with minted minds, <br />Water the flames of fear; <br />Above mountains, night freezes out dusk <br />And darkness like a drape drops dead, <br />But for the flag of love rippling <br />Gently in the breeze. <br />The piper calls his tune and every note <br />Sings a melody that carries in its genes <br />Pitch and rhythm, the nectar of motion <br />And music that feeds love to the soul. <br />Love is the prime mover, the base of being, <br />Love is.... <br />Lord of the dance.<br /><br />Robert Dummett<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lord-of-the-dance/
