Thursday, September 13, 2012

In the temple of Vesta/The dancer in the dark


What am I but a dancer in the dark
An  existence only meant to serve
I live for mortals in the light of day
When hopeless prayers mingle with my soul
Asking it an impossible question
Of love’s labours and of the will to pray
Looking to answer fate’s eternal  song
About that  constant child of chance
My miracle is to heal the lover’s fears
To tell him: “Never submit to fate
and  believe that your  dreams
Are beyond your  reality
Never believe that your dreams
Shall not fit in your  tomorrow!”
My miracle is to give hope to every human heart
When my own is forever denied the human tears.

But my  night belongs  to  the  moon
Flowing through  the columns of Vesta’s temple
The moon is kind to show that my hair
Still flows  like  the golden harvest of May
Reminding  me that only twenty are my years

Tonight, there is no place for despair
The moon was kind to offer me a dance