Two Dancers
Two dancers
fall across the floor
locked in their embrace
of motion.
One is thriving,
the other is dying,
and neither one knows
where the next step
leads to.
One is flying,
reaching to the stars
and wishing to take
the other
with them.
They move
as if they are
throwing off the
pains of the past,
and have found
that their time has come.
The other is falling
to the ground,
afraid to see
if their wings
can ever work again.
They are lost
in who they are,
and who they think
they used to be,
and
