The Dancer

They are, 
we are.The first dancer 
when the music beat up 
deep from within 
as we slowly 
tap the pencil 
sometimes 
on a tattered notebook 
or we glimpse 
as the drumming from the roof 
the rain that first fell 
can they listen to the nib of our pen? 
or 
the sudden outburst of scratch 
or imperious soliloquy
stood and walk for a while 
then look out on the window 
a simple gazed 
reluctant 
the world it is as it was
the clock ticked on the wall 
and when it stopped 
rushed 
to grab back 
the pencil on the head
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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