Sally Eslinger Poet Free verse

The Long Desires

The Long Desires


When I was a teen, 
I loved ballet...
Going to bed with a radio
Under my pillow, listening
To symphonies, imagining pas de deux;
And when I danced my steps
For real, even pirouetting
Down long store aisles, I’d think,
“I will dance ‘til I die.”

But, now I am too old to star a ballet.
I draw.  I paint.  I write.  I desire.  I
Ponder, “What do I long to do
  ‘Til I die?”
A short search of my heart
Discloses a knowing: I would
Plunge into Creativity itself,
Meaning God,
Then ride a swirl of Joy
To nurture circumstances of Love,
In his service.
I shall make songs of tumbleweeds,
Of recollections of all missed embraces...
An unending flight
  Upon a speckled wren.

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(c)sally Young-Eslinger 3/2020
Thanks be to God

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