Love Poem: Life Is a Dance
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Written by: Line Gauthier

Life Is a Dance

How Jeff and Nora loved to see us come in to their dance studio every Sunday afternoon. These ballroom award winners taught with a joyful enthusiasm that was contagious. To the eight of us, our family formed a complete square dance set. The youngest was so tiny but managed somehow to keep up. 

How often I had imagined Nora in her ballroom gown flowing gracefully twirling across the dance floor. It was gutwrenching how Nora let herself die of a broken heart a year to the day after Jeff died unexpectedly on the operating table.



                                                               in a cloud of shock
                                                               swirling at heaven’s gate
                                                               our ballroom visions




AP: 1st place 2021, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on August 9, 2021 for KINDNESS contest sponsored by REGINA MCINTOSH

Originally posted on October 27, 2020