Wanting to prolong joy I keep a soap-bubble moment <br />alive - watching two young dancers perform the same <br />enchanting scenes again, delighting in creamed icing <br />of true classical ballet <br /> <br />Less enamoured with the dance and being impatient <br />you could not, you'd rather continue to walk in dreary <br />reality without the edges shining - whereas I need to <br />drink in all joy and beauty to fortify my heart <br /> <br />When returned to the darkest parts of reality, the <br />repetitive dissonance of a grey monotone reciting <br />litanies of criminal deeds with recriminations has <br />me buried by it - unable to dream of assistance <br /> <br />Failure is a testament to the strength of my desire to <br />reach for spiritual life where my need for roots and <br />anchors led to my changing into a root anchoring <br />me without beauty, music and harmony - though <br /> <br />I listen to song, sway with the dance - beyond life's <br />metronome slowly comes to a standstill<br /><br />Margaret Alice Second<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beyond-life-s-metronome-revised/
