Raised on songs and stories...

and because my brain has blessed me with insomnia
it's time for
MORE BAD POETRY!!! YAY!


Dance with me
in a whirling dervish
of clustered emotion

I won't fall over my own feet
my graceless gait replaced with
one of poise and opulence.

Dance with me my dear
Remind me of beauty
and times when I was young
when I'd be swung around the dance floor
and wouldn't trip on invisible feet

the lake is never placid
the lake is never still
yet here we are together
and it shows me that it will
allow the sky to be reflected
upon it's shining surface

that night so many years ago
where I pledged my fate to another
who took my heart and buried it
in the icy sand

and you were there,
but you were not
and you had tried to warn me

your dark eyes locked
upon mine
as you sat there and implored me
"think about the things that matter
hang on to what you love
and by what you love i don't mean him
i mean your own personhood."

and i ignored
the warning voices
the voices on the wind
and i ignored
the beating waves
telling me of the future.

you washed along the shore
gasping for air
trying to scream with all your heart
that there was some one there, who cared

several years later
we came to that same point
where i drew your symbol in the sand
and promised we'd never part

sentimentality aside
when we danced in the waves for the first time
I thought one cycle had ended
and a new one had begun

it had
and now it's done
and the next, and the next
like mighty waves
threaten to blow me over
and take my breath

somewhere on that shore
is a short young thing, with short young dreams
who cried real tears
and felt real fears

and she is screaming out
"I will not give up on my dreams
I will not give up on myself"

So many years have passed and I
realized the pain of passing
i reached out for solidarity
and found myself reaching me

For I am
the only constant
in a world of constant change

So dance with me
in the white capped waves
blue, freezing against my sandaled feet
and suddenly warm
when I know that I'm home
on the shores of Superior.