the dance floor is crowded and the floor shines like it was freshly polished. dresses fitted tightly and loosely, dresses purple, blue, yellow, unladylike. hands moving like torpedoes, high kicks, deep dips, choreographed nonsense. twirls, spinning in tent like shapes, hips gracefully swaying as the trumpets scream. waltzing my way back into reality, into the arms of a familiar stranger. clouded with the strawberry coated thoughts of a busted up balcony with my dance partner swinging me into a trance. must have been love in the folds on your forehead, must have been love in the lights reflecting on the dance floor, must have been love in that gloomy air upstate, must have been love where i never saw it appear before, must have been love; nothing else has ever made me feel the same brilliant surge of energy as your touch on my back. it must have been true love.
inspired by the school dance scene in west side story 7/12/22