We dance
These words mutating
Complicating
The space that fills
Between you
Standing in front of me
And pretending
Cell phone voices,
Pretty pink
Our lipstick colors
Falsifying and contriving
This minuet
This tango we pursue
We dance
Lines colliding
Worlds dividing
You are the one beside me
Chasing nightmares behind walls,
Into exile
Sleepless nights we pass
In stormy breech
Our silence costs so much
Behind rigid bodies,
Arched backs
And so
We dance . . .
Until I walk away