‘I want to dance with you’
(Easy life and quiet death-Sir Walter Scott)
(We poets in our youth begin with gladness; but there off in the end despondency and sadness. -Wordsworth)
I want to dance with you tonight
Sober days and nights led us to places of loneliness. Two people sharing one house with locked doors, not enough words spoken and love forgotten.
Once we were young and fearless. I couldn’t live without your kiss and your embrace. Once your voice and touch made me believe love was alive and forever. We held love like a delicious pain.
Today I watched you. Us sitting together without conversation. Cell phones and tire mind accepting life as-is. I told you, honey, dear and my pretty lady. We need to depart this grave of our home and find some song. I want you in your red dress and red shoes. I need your evil smile and wild needs. We need some good song and dance my sweet love.
She smiled and asked, I watched you work and work. You seem to have surrender to work and forgot me. I want us to find the places where we were lovers, wild and untamed. I want our roguish days when you ran to me. You are right Johnnie. We need to find some song, some Long Island ice tea and a motel by the sea. Dead love is shallow love. People who forget to feast on love. Are alone.
She appeared in red dress and her favorite read shoes. I told her. You are so beautiful my dear love. Tonight we will dance, I want to dance with you. We will find a motel by the sea and learn to taste the elixir of love again.
She gave me a smile of doubt and she whispered. Promise made are to be broken. Love had few last chances, maybe this is our last dance. Please make me feel loved and adored. Please don’t forget I’m here for you.
I went to her. Wrapped my arms around her waist and I whispered. You are my only mercy I have known and I will do anything for you. Anything to keep you in my life my love.
John Castellenas/Coyote
Reblogged this on I Write Her and commented:
Enjoy the rekindling of romance in this sweet piece! 🙂
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Thank you dear Susi. Sir Walter Scott. He wrote the truth.
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It was a pleasure to share this piece, John! 🙂
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John, you totally nailed what romance, adoration and seduction look like! It keeps relationships fresh and alive. I absolutely adored this piece! Good job! ❤
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Thank you Susi. Keeping romance and love alive. Must be a important part of our life.
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Totally important!! 🙂
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Oh, and I sent it to my husband. His response “I want to dance with you…” 🙂
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I absolutely love this piece, so true. People get so wrapped up in other things we forget, or perhaps take for granted, the love and wildness that brought us together.
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You are right. We forget what made us love. We must show we care for our love, everyday of our life. Thank you for reading. I do appreciate.
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I love to read your words when I get a chance to catch up on the blogging world. There is something so soothing in how you write, I always enjoy your posts.
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‘Today I watched you. Us sitting together without conversation. Cell phones and tire mind accepting life as-is. I told you, honey, dear and my pretty lady. We need to depart this grave of our home and find some song.’
I love the longing for real interaction and connection in this piece.
Wonderful write.
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Sometime we accept less. We shouldn’t and thank you Suzy for reading and the comment.
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“Sober days and nights led us to places of loneliness. Two people sharing one house with locked doors, not enough words spoken and love forgotten.” What a sad and lovely image at the same time.
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Happens often, love died without a fight. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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