Dancing

DANCING

© 2009 by Grace Pettis & Sofia Echegaray



You threw your head back in laughter


And the ribbon flew from your hair


Your laugh was like water


And I drank it like air


Just back from the great war


With my uniform holding me up


You were soft as a whisper


And you found me a young man in love



And we were dancing, dancing  


Round and around, we were dancing



You wore my jacket all Autumn

In the winter I made you my wife 


Kissed you goodbye every morning


Came home to you every night


Sometimes we'd dance in the kitchen


After the girls were asleep


Put your head on my shoulder


And kissed me soft on the cheek



While we were dancing, dancing  


Round and around, we were dancing




I keep in my drawer, the corsage you wore


And the rose you pinned over my heart . . . it's falling apart . . .



My tired feet still remember


Though they don't have their previous grace


My arms wrap around, that old lost and found


The world spins, and I stay in place


And though you are only a memory


Thank God that my memory is true


In the halls of my mind, we are churning in time


And I dance again darling with you       



And we are dancing, dancing  


Round and around, we were dancing