Wedding Dancers (1st April 2022)

She dances,

Worlds of past collide:

As if she was seventeen again,

Standing in my size 12 shoes and laughing.

Laughing on my shoulder as we learnt our youths.

Holding my hand before I went to court

When I was seventeen,

And now here

She dances.

He dances too,

The happy groom;

Their delighted children.

Twenty years that melt away with smiles;

Habitual nodes of Gemini that twin the soul.

She serves me cake, I fill her glass.

She chats warmly to my girl.

I bow, take her hand,

She dances.