By Laurel Ahlfeld
Date: 2001 Dec 28
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Sands

You danced to me last night
As the stars sparkled with laughter
Embedded in the nighttime sky
Of midnight velvet
The sand left a telltale path
Of your hurrying footprints
While the hushed ocean reached
To erase them
Your coattails flew with grace
In the gentle breeze
That carried you toward me
In a secret hour
Barefooted and beautiful
You twirled nearer
And as if Fred Estair
Reached for your leading lady
Your hand so soft that eve
Left behind the pain
No longer calloused by the hurt
Caused by everyday life
And your grey eyes filled again
With such rambunctious passion
Pleaded with me to join you
In a forbidden dance
As my soul wrestled with thoughts
Of reprimand and reward
Of wrongs and rights
And of how much I've missed you
I close my eyes to fight tears
To fight the thoughts
And my heart cried out
Slowly my own hand extended
My eyes open
To find that this bed
Is lonelier now
Than it has ever been