Life is a Dance Floor

Life is a dance floor...

We find ourselves with different partners

At different times

And we dance to different music

In different tempos

With different intensities.

Some partners are old

Some are young

Some, our age

Some are strangers who become friends or lovers

Some - we have known all our lives and don't know what to make of

But we dance with them, anyway

Because the music continues

Some dances are fleeting

Some seem to go on and we can't wait until they're over

Some - we pray would not end - but they do

But when all the stars are aligned,

Some dances last a lifetime

And so we dance

With strangers

With drifters

With adversaries

With mentors

With students

With peers

With friends

With lovers

And we give thanks

For those who have influenced us to be better -

Those who we learned to love

And who told us stories we have heard before, and still we listen;

who said jokes we already know in our hearts, and still we laugh;

those whose lives have inspired us, not because of their successes,

but because of their struggles, failures and endless faith that keeps them trying.

And we owe gratitude

To those who we found hard to love

Who kept us on our toes

Who taught us what not to be;

and showed us what not to do

We keep in our hearts

Those who awakened our faculties to think for ourselves, and showed us how;

those who encouraged us to question things we did not understand and find answers if there was none

those who patiently led us to the difference between loyalty and blind faith;

between truth and lies - especially those of our own doings;

between vision and obsession;

between love and lust;

between reality and fantasy;

between life and death.

And we continue to dance

With partners who come and go

For as long as the music plays

In our lives

In our thoughts

In our hearts

Life is a dance floor

And so we dance.

And so we dance

Until the music of our life is no more...