Please call back later, I'm busy celebrating, Don't have time for you.
That is why I'm here, It's time to pay the piper, For your revelry.
I'll go if I must, You can take my life but not, The dances I've danced.
My dad in reminiscing about his younger years used to say "Qien me quita lo bailado" a phrase he learned after emigrating to Argentina from Spain. Roughly translated it means, "Who can take away from me the dances I've danced?" All we have can be taken from us, including our lives, but not the good times shared with good friends which is precisely what he meant. That is the basis of my linked haikus here. May you and mom long dance in heaven, dad.