tango in heaven
hands, masculine and twitching
with youth, yours grasping mine,
in a secret, solitary dance
to a band streets away
the wind wrapping the
velvet cloak of night around us,
hiding what should not be seen
by the town’s children
no shining stars to wish upon
no full moon to illuminate
the insanity and intensity
of this stolen moment
we sigh and sway, dip and twirl
shunned and doomed to lead
the shadow of a life
away from the other dancers
silence, only the music of bodies left,
cruel dawn just minutes off,
yet time enough for the outcasts
of love to have one last tango in heaven
About this poem
My first boyfriend an I met at a country dance in rural Arkansas. We couldn't dance in public so we went a block away and danced in an alley where we could still hear the music.
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Submitted by jeremyt.40101 on June 30, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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