Oh, how we’ve danced these last two years.<\/p>\n
Our first twenty? Merely practice for our waltz<\/p>\n
of surviving, fretful tears, hushed and distant goodbyes.<\/p>\n
We breathed the same air, now precious and scarce<\/p>\n
as our world gasped for more through sobs and jolts.<\/p>\n
You bowed then tipped your hat, and I curtsied with<\/p>\n
a demure glance again to catch your direction.<\/p>\n
Where would our dance lead us?<\/p>\n
This same dance of rhythm, two four six eight steps<\/p>\n
repeating the melody in a song which grew deeper,<\/p>\n
more resonant each day we were blessed to dance.<\/p>\n
You are now the one closest to me,<\/p>\n
mine who grew closer as our pivots changed to pirouettes.<\/p>\n
Our shared precious air, our quiet sky, our shaky dance,<\/p>\n
drawing us together in our daily gavotte, our high steps,<\/p>\n
our shimmy, our moments of stillness as music swept over us.<\/p>\n
You have been the truest partner in our waltz.<\/p>\n
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