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RED SATIN DRESS
I want to thank you for last night
For a dance with me in the moonlight
You were beaming in a red satin dress
Your shoulders were shining
Your angelic face, radiating
Smiling, inviting, enchanting,
Captivating my captured heart
Even before we started to dance
I don't remember if I came to you
Or if you came to me
I became alive at the first note
of the first song that gave your hand to me
And up until now
Hours and days after my dream had ended
I can still see in my head
Those beautiful legs
And the animated bow
The red satin dress
That flipped back and forth
As I swung you from my right hand to my left
Why does everything have to end?
And why does anything have to start?
I am not looking for an explanation
Or an answer or an affirmation
I am not seeking for a solution
Or a friend or a companion
Yet there it was
My mother tried to explain to me
That she was only a girl of twenty four
A girl, and not yet a lady
A girl, who in a flash, disappeared
And left me
Dancing
With lipstick mark on my cheek
And a load of heartache
For the weeks to come
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