The Hesitant Dance

I dance around your words

As much, if not more

Than you dance around mine

Each step soft, unsure

A breathless question

I dare not ask

You dare not answer

We share our dreams but nothing else

Stuck in the dark that

We've chosen

(I'd choose that dark again and again)

I'd willfully lose my chance

For living in light

You are the Jilted Lover

Already

Too far from my saving

Too easily fragile

You'd only want my breaking too

It's safer to be alone

And whole

Then in a million little ---

And if you were to ask

I'd dance away fast

Into the comforting dark

Thick pillows of night

But you won't ask

As I promise it's safer

To dance on a million uncertain unsaid yesses

Then the finality

of a definitive

No

Passion and fire burn too hot

But the frigid winter's night

Is much too cold

Just continue

Continue to dance around me

As I dance around you