A DEATH
A distant friend has passed this night
Passed and joined another realm, another dance
Brandy and death together in a waltz
Without tears falling from dry eyes
The sorrow of the dancers goes on living
Trapped in an eternal ballet as life goes on to die
While nature’s odd sorts in pose stand frozen
Where they are locked and wearing a disguise
And you love me as someone you cannot stop
While we will dance with brandy and with death
Until the hours fall away and death caves in
Leaving an opening where one had never been
Under the shadows of the moon
Amid a stagnate wind
Remember us when you drink brandy and dance in a waltz
While about us the dancers fall in death
One upon one to cover the ballroom floor
And tears cannot fall from dry eyes
Even when we are all wearing a disguise
And pretend to be just one across time
Dancing with brandy and with death
With dry eyes unable to drop a single tear
And a distant friend has passed this night
Passed and joined another realm, another dance
While you and I stand in love, hand in hand
And watch the world as for some it comes to an end.
Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn, Poet in the Rain 11/19/18
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