A Dancer With An Answer

A DANCER WITH AN ANSWER I’ll always remember her grandeur, her grace and her style And the way she’d turn my frown into a smile I’ll always remember how she taught me to dance with ease And I’ll always remember her, if you please There will never be a day when she won’t enter my mind I’ll still see her beauty were I ever to go blind She was small in stature but stood so tall And the lady, indeed, she had it all She’d chase me in order to chastise me at times And as I grew older she forgave even my crimes For I was a rebel bent on being what I wanted to be And if she were here now she’d say “you should have listened to me” I’ll always recall the way she forgave and forgot And gave me enough although we didn’t have a lot I’ll forever envision her blowing out the candles on a cake And now I hate those ever growing candles for her death’s sake © 2011.…Jeffry Cohan