Spiral Dance

So many waking dreams of us,
Last night's the first while I still slept.
I didn’t recognize your voice at once
But on the phone you said I’d "passed the test."

So we retest the past, and now I qualify to play this fool?
Well here I am with my best bell-shoes on;
The eggshell shards are stuck between my toes
I dance in place while you chase and run.

Another turn in our spiral dance:
The distance grows with each passing chance
As close to the center as I’ll ever be,
It shrinks down to infinity.

You stay away until it suits you not
To build such distant fortress walls around
Your heart; but therein lies the art of lies,
Because the old foundations still remain.

So I stand upon this ever-rising wall,
Down there the place you keep I see below;
And perish though I might I still would fall
Into the deep Once, a long time ago…


2007