The Ballerina

The Ballerina Out on a limb, so nimble and quick, and so beautiful and full of grace; a youthful ballerina who won’t quit in this fleeting moment when she is the ‘Star’ and relies on her heart’s adamant desire throughout this treacherous love affair on the stage as her heart engages in a jealousy’s rage (as time flies by) and she dies a thousand deaths, after practicing so hard, fighting tooth and nail with the beast to be stronger, and more energetic, and elegantly more than the rest, while shunning the pleasures of life’s fruitless rewards and tells herself, she’s better than that and gives her all, and a little more (summoned up from the depths of her soul) to win the applause, the audience responds with, because ballerinas grow old, ever so quickly.