Valerie's Song
She runs playfully through my mind,
hair & eyes ablaze,
taunting, teasing,
almost close enough to touch.
I reach out to her
& she dances away,
laughing joyfully,
making me smile
at the tear that escapes my eye.
She runs & twirls & plays,
dancing to a song
that only she can hear -
a melody of the mind
& I love her all the more for it.
Silently in the moonlight,
she smile's her sad child's smile
sending a shiver down my spine.
Will she dance life's dance with me?
-- kenneth p rougeau jr
(sometime in the 1990s)