The Dance

Two old souls dance in a shimmering light,
Old embers of an eternal flame.
Colorful firefly sparks brighten the night.

Twilight lamps glow softly as love ignites,
Sighing for a love that has no fame.
Two old souls dance in a shimmering light.

Older then earth each chants delight.
Singing of mysteries that never came.
Colorful firefly sparks brighten the night.

Wandering as they can never come into sight.
Gatekeepers watch at the door's silver frame.
Two old souls dance in a shimmering light.

Love all consuming knows of their plight.
Doomed eternally to play this game.
Colorful firefly sparks brighten the night.

Sadness deepens the embers hue as mighty
Souls quest for one another in vain.
Two old souls dance in shimmering light
As colorful firefly sparks brighten the night.

by Lea Docken

Lea is the poetry consultant for Moondance, owns the Internet Fantasy Writers Association online list and has poetry published in Moondance, Ticklespot-Playground of the Goddess, Journal of Wisdom, Maelstorm, Siouxland an Anthology, and a local publication of Fantasy and Faerytales, and will have work in Business Women's Advantage Newsletter. She is Poetry Editor of Women Artists and Writers International Poetry Newsletter and WebPage due to appear in September. Lea's goal is to bring awareness of the great poets of the past to young and old alike. She just signed on as Consulting Poetry Editor for BWA Newsletter. Currently she is working on a Divination and Dream Guidance Column for Ticklespot. When she is not working on Poetry or writing fantasy or studying the esoteric, she is getting five teens ready to face the world.