Love Poem: Devotion Poem Our Dance
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Written by: Sally Eslinger

Devotion Poem Our Dance

Devotion  Poem - Our Dance       (For Jim)

           
You are the first and last poems
    God wrote for me.
You are the sparkler
    I found flaming sun yellow between
The sprigs of early green grass,
     Before the shoveled piles of February 
Snow had melted away 
    Their last signs of winter.

You came unexpectedly,
   Beyond probability, carting too
Much physics homework for your
   Left-brained studies, and
Declaring, “I don’t dance for anyone.”
   Emphatic.  Like an evergreen.
But I had seen trees dance, just as I thought
   I might go on dancing if I knew you.
    

Then you fell silent, telling your life to me
   With your smile, while your eyes glanced
Through space dismissing  time, sparkling 
    A reach to my heart for a continuous dance…I
Have never stopped my wonder, or my own
    Silent joy surpassing the physics of falling
        Through dimensions into your heart.


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(c) sally young eslinger 6/2/22
Thanks be to God