To Dance

Oh to dance!  One feels that all of life’s little defeats

might be packed off to boarding school to do their

mischief far far away if only there were dancing

wild and true from the very core of one’s being

heads thrown back hatted or bare in wild abandon

dancing of the variety that invites all to close their

weary eyes throw off the heavy coat of inhibition

and under the night sky draw down the lights of stars.