Dance of Life

Smooth like a wave she begins...
With breathless highs and lows.
In a twirling eddy she spins;
With the grace of a river she flows.

She careens like a feather
Cradled by the flowing breeze.
She dances untethered;
With winds nestled in her knees.

Scores of sparks together spawn
A burst of flare with a blinding glare.
Her flaming body dances on...
The enthralling sight, the seers stare.

Time itself ceases to be,
As she gyrates like the earth.
Celestial bodies stop by to see
Her fiery and unbridled mirth.

Dance itself her only goal;
She builds her own reality.
Glow of her heart illumes her soul.
She dances for the Gods to see.

Vexing worries no longer hound;
She dances all her ails away.
Like her dance her joy unbound,
As the music makes her sway.

Crashing from heavens above;
Jolted back to the cruel world.
Torn apart from her only love;
The music no longer to be heard.

Stolen of her movements deft,
As the music ceased to flow.
The dainty maiden felt bereft
When the present had to go.

The world was blinded to her strife,
As on the past she cast a glance.
She wished to dance a dance of life.
And while alive to live to dance.

- Himanshu