When the dance is finished,
When the last step has been stepped,
The last hand released,
Your family dispersed,
You peer into the quiet unknown.
Warmth flees before the cold night air,
As though you were dreaming…
But as it flees…
Do you feel the dance
still living in you?
Do you feel, now, the way you spun
and breathed and stopped for water?
Life’s greatest miracle
smiles still…
I will always love you.
(2017)