Please read the end note when you finish the poem!
Thanks!!!!
I dance in the flames as I fall into step ~
Trying to miss the places that made you upset~
The memories make me jump higher and higher~
I feel the sting as I dance past the fire~
The tears bring back the pain that I’d put away,
spinning back into the melody of yesterday~
Like a butterfly trapped, still inside it’s cacoon~
I dance through my mind running from each room~
as I close the door, where you live in my mind,
I find the part of me that I left behind.
Just like a jewelry box dancer trapped in a box
my heart is inside with the key and it’s lock.
Diane Reed
2013
Before you get too concerned. I have a friend who is reading my book (Has read almost my whole blog) and has written a song that we both have been working on. I was supposed to do the lyrics and believe me I thought it would be a piece of cake. I had written songs before with others who wrote the music and I wrote the words, and it had come so easily. But this one was not so easy. I think because I have been stuck at the end of my book not really knowing how to finish it, I was stuck in the writing of the song process. I am not saying that I have found the perfect words yet but the well has opened and I am finding inspiration again. The book is about certain things and my recent poems are as well. Don’t worry about me being stuck in the past… smile…. I may write about it as I continue working on my book because I have thought about including a poem before each chapter so I am just working on ideas. I am writing about yesterday but standing in today. I promise!
To sample my friend Jim’s piece that he wrote I have shared his link to his blog that you may find inspiring. He is very talented. His song is called Finding Diane…. (Even though I am writing my book in fictional form, and so it would be Finding Keri 😉 ) I love it so much! This is actually the ending… maybe he will post the whole song soon…. http://nostolencatpictures.com/2013/03/31/music-theory-0031/#more-2804 It would be fun if you would stop by and LIKE his blog. He has some great posts in his archives as well as the beginning to this song! Thanks guys!
The One Thing I know For Sure 
I like this a lot….nice words to put to music.
This is awesome Diane! I look forward to hearing more about how the song develops, and the beautiful ballerina imagery is perfect for your tender words!
Oh Thank you! I feel bare without my pictures but Jim’s melody,( who has proposed this project) has substance enough to not need pictures. It will be interesting how he incorporates everything. I just keep writing, hoping he can take bits from wherever he wants and make it into a song!
Elsker å lese det du skriver😃gleder meg hver gang du poster noe nytt💗
Thanks for the reference. I love all those ballerina pictures. The background of my computer is some old painting of a ballerina dancing and looking up with joy. It’s a manly thing to do! What am I supposed to do, adore a picture of some football player? I think not.
Once I get the performance of the whole thing together I’ll post it. I hope for that so be within a few days. The left hand is tricky in parts.
Gotta run and do my post-Easter blog. It’s getting late!
Thanks Jim… no pressure… I just got kind of oiled up today and had to share.
You are too funny and manly! 😉
I was just wondering about you this weekend, goes to show that energy does follow thought …. Keep going
I need THAT energy! Pleeeease keep it coming! Thank you!