- <br />Dance, I said to the boy in the glass <br />Staring back at me with a darkening mask <br />Dance, I begged, with love and pain <br />Dance, please dance, oh dance again <br /> - <br /> <br />Dance with the moon in the child’s eye <br />Circling the middle as black as coal <br />Dance quickly now, its leaving soon <br />Light of the moon and the child’s soul <br /> <br />Dance with the sun in the child’s laugh <br />Bouncing round off sinister things <br />Dance quickly now, with crystal prism <br />Scattering wisdom, melting wings <br /> <br />Dance with the rain in the child’s tear <br />Watching the clouds attack then stop <br />Dance quickly now, the storm has shattered <br />All that mattered, with a single drop <br /> <br />Dance with the hope in his stuttered speech <br />Holding it close for a later year <br />Dance quickly now, before he serves <br />Nonsense words, in a busted mirror <br /> <br /> - <br />Though the moon may spin and the sun revolve <br />Though love still waits and the rain still falls <br />Though the child may laugh he glares inside <br />Exhaling life with a sudden sigh <br /> -<br /><br />Ben Paynter<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dance-quickly-now/
