Fade Into Distance

Alone, embracing darkness I remain, from lonely seat the dancing feet recall the beat of nights I learned love’s pain. We danced the tango neath the moonlit night my love and I no words to sigh or even cry as music took our flight. We wed in June and love was ours alone, before war’s call that very Fall and I recall a child I’ve never known. And from behind the veil I watch her dance a rhythmic swirl towards the girl with bonnie curl and fade into distance.