The Dance

I wrote this last semester during one of my classes.

THE DANCE

Copyright Reagan Dyer 2014

A mash of mixed up words

all the music coming strong and fast,

the pain thick on my tongue.

But on and on we dance.

The world is all become red

with white-hot flashing lights.

The voices have become a blur

that spill out in the night.

I want to say something,

but the words die on my lips.

Do I deserve this thing?

The world begins to tip.

A nightly tradition we carry out,

spinning round and round again.

The tune beats inside my head,

each note a throb of pain.

But while the music carries on,

I know I have no chance

to duck his flying, bloody fist
before we break this deadly dance.