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An Unfinished Ballet

You...

Feel the ***** of your feet

Each step painting a tapestry

Each breath left unnoticed

Each move unrelenting...

 

Neither of us

Wished I were here

 

What should've been a revival

became default to a recital

And every pirouette

A moment none of us

Should have missed

... and I'm no better

 

I'd've penned you letters

Each with the broken, desperate intent

And secret hope, you'd just throw it away

 

But I can feel in each Poisson

As i fish for every moment you've lost

And the tilte barre

Cant fulfill your absent tomorrows

I could have staged for you

an "I'm sorry"

 

Now every time I hear your laugh

In playback or live from a hundred miles

Your giggles reignite in me

A flame through a negative

The moments as they might be

But here we are

And where we both were left to be

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Written by
brass-knuckles-mike
37 / M / American
Published
Jan 27, 2023
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Notes

I figured out who I wrote this for.

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