The Dancer

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In shadows cast by moonlit dreamsA dancer sways their delicate limbsLike a feather in the airWith a longing heart full of despair

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In shadows cast by moonlit dreams
A dancer sways their delicate limbs
Like a feather in the air
With a longing heart full of despair

He swirls without a partner to lean on
Without a heart to console
Without an audience to applaud
His steps and falls become too loud

The floor in red he paints
His clothes soaked in stains
His flesh full of cuts and bruises
He can't stop, even if his soul he loses

For even if the box is closed
He should be ready to see his rose

For he is not dancing for himself
Alone he is but not in a shelf
He performs to be seen
To make her face from tears to be clean

She is not his audience
She is his confluence
She is the one that changes his life
From day to night, from dark to light
With a simple movement, a step too close
With a swift movement, his world she expose

In perfection she always finds him
Tall, straight, cheerful and lean
Ready to dance his life away
For her eyes, on him to lay

He is condemn to eternal spinning
A doll in a box, a melody singing
A ballerina standing tall
In the eyes of his lover, he can never fall

For those mere seconds are everything to him
In his essence she dives to swim
For all his heart beats for this moments
And her whispering praises and sweet comments

All he will ever get from her are those
Small little nothings, that make him feel close
Her eyes on him, sparkling of delight
Give him reason to see again the light

For even though he is nothing more than a doll
An insignificant wooden piece, without a soul
He is alive within her eyes
And he for her lays in lies

An eternal dancer he will be
His body prisoner but his love will have free
For her all was worth it
For he was her audience, fallen in loves pit.

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