Let Your Life Slightly Dance Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Let your life lightly dance
Dance… tiptoeing, crawling
on the edges of time
as if now is the moment
and the end of time.

Dance with all your grace
with all your might
Move to the rhythm
of the music, give life
to its dullness, give life
to its refrains and pauses.

Listen to the dance
of life which ends
at a passage of time
like dew on the tip of a leaf
which falls down by a wisp
of wind or which soon dries up.

Let your life lightly dance
to the music of love,
to the music of faith,
to the music of trust
although such life
simply comes from dust.
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From the title challenge of our dear poet Nishu, combining quotations from JM Barrie and Rabindranath Tagore, September 6,2012