Devotion Poem Our Dance

Devotion Poem - Our Dance (For Jim) You are the first and last poems God wrote for me. You are the sparkler I found flaming sun yellow between The sprigs of early green grass, Before the shoveled piles of February Snow had melted away Their last signs of winter. You came unexpectedly, Beyond probability, carting too Much physics homework for your Left-brained studies, and Declaring, “I don’t dance for anyone.” Emphatic. Like an evergreen. But I had seen trees dance, just as I thought I might go on dancing if I knew you. Then you fell silent, telling your life to me With your smile, while your eyes glanced Through space dismissing time, sparkling A reach to my heart for a continuous dance…I Have never stopped my wonder, or my own Silent joy surpassing the physics of falling Through dimensions into your heart. ———————————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 6/2/22 Thanks be to God