We walk the shattered sea-wall.
I eye my shadow holding your hand.
Hauling anchored words
I ask if you remember
showing me the three step shuffle
and how that awkward waltz
was simplified by a hand
over your heart, and words
you lick-dripped into my ear.
"Feel my beat.
Translate
with your feet"
Such words have no place now.
We are formal. It is business.
The tying up of loose ends.
Between and before us
Is history and distance
formed by a love malfunctioned.
Free to drop guard now
I offer you the passing touch of my hand
which you take, loosely.
We move on, silenced by that fact.
Well stated Vince.