La Cumparsita

Last Dance -Free Verse

Whirling like a feather on the breeze

under a dusky street lamp

shadowed figures dance to absolve

such deception must be acknowledged

my bare feet bleeding in the cracked cement

your eyes turned away

I fall but you don't see this

my movements display cataclysmic events

but your eyes are turned away

passers by stare in awe

let there be no mistake

this blood will mark you!

I have danced on mountain peaks

and twirled in soft sand

leaped and embraced waves 

but bitterness is your waltz

your legs move like rocks

there is no dance

just stage lights left to burn

Your past eats away at the musical notes

left dangling off the manuscript

such adornments make my heels sticky

words mean nothing 

when they are spread so thinly 

on worn wooden floors

farewell my love

the final song is always 

La Cumparsita!