Preference For Passion Poem by Louise Tredoux

Turning and twirling like a golden dust particle
in warm sunlight, happy in the preference for
love and passion and romance, joyous in the
choice for freedom and wild delight, swirling
in spiraling circles like a planet around the sun,
my sun is you, your laughing eyes, your bright
smile, your wise counsel, your touch that excites
me so much, your loyalty to our flame of love,
the hearth created by our togetherness, dusting
was a chore, but staring at flying dust to the
music of the introduction to Die Fledermaus,
I’m en pointe in my mind, dancing on my toes,
a character in The Nutcracker – the Sugar
Plum Fairy – and the room becomes a
lighted stage for a fantasy ballet…