They Danced

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    They Danced

    They Danced
    By: Poetic_Muse


    He took her hand and lifted her,
    “Shall we dance?” he asked, and he lifted her,
    “Hold on tight to me,” as he lifted her,
    “On one ….two…three” ….and then he lifted her.

    Humming a tune of the Waltz he guided and tossed;
    he held her so close
    and they danced, they danced, they danced…
    I watched from the doorway as I heard him say…
    ”that’s it like this the way we use to dance,
    Almost there my love”,
    and then without even looking up to see my silhouette
    he addressed my presence,
    He said,
    “See this is what I do when she’s getting upset…when she thinks she can make it to the bathroom by herself
    refusing to face the cancer has taken her health.
    Her legs are to weak for her to do it alone
    so I..I take her for a Waltz around this old room
    and it calms her as she allows me to assist
    see, I as her husband knows a good dance she can’t resist.”

    I continued to watch as they danced out of site,
    that’s the last thing I remember
    until the night she took flight…
    They danced, they danced,,,,, they danced.


    In memory of my beautiful Mother Claudette Wills Jackson
    and in appreciation for the man who loved her enough to dance her into Heaven,
    My father Lonnie Jackson.

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    Vincent commented on They Danced

    12-15-2008

    A very beautful poetic story filled with love and passion.

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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