A Rainbow Collection // Oh My Poems!

#10 ~ "That One Dance"

"This One Dance"

I felt like the crowd would swallow me.

Couples danced on the dance floor.

That night I had waited for so long.

Not so sure if it would break or complete me.

It was you I think of, you I always fantasized of.

I saw you danced her first and planned your last.

I saw how you held her,

I saw you smile, I saw her laugh,

I saw how you took photos,

I saw how happy you were.

If given a chance, I wanted to leave

Escape that pain reality gives.

but I was there not only for the pain,

I was there for that was part of my life.

I wanted to scream, bawl, and cry

Just to release that emotion I kept inside.

I shouldn't, because even I couldn't wipe my own tears.

I didn't know how someone can build

and wreck you at the same time.

I didn't know how I loved you like this,

I didn't know how I couldn't stop no matter how it hurts,

And I didn't know what I was feeling.

I turned and fell into someone's hands.

The loud sound, the dim lights made me dizzy.

I looked up and saw you.

Among all people in that room, it was you!

I needed to stop the false fairytale creating in me

"It will never happen, it will hurt you more,"

I thought.

But it was real.

Maybe reality stopped cursing me, for once.

You asked me for a dance,

the dance I was waiting for.

A dance I thought only in my dreams exists.

I nodded then you smiled.

The smile where I fell in love

The smile that I always long for

The same smile that, I know,

I could never call mine.

You took my hand and pull me close...

At that moment,

I didn't care about anything else—

the pain, the tears,

the impossibilities, the false fairytales—

Yet, I was very sure only of one:

That one dance

contained a forever within the short night.

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© StellaShimmers, 02/14/14