WHEN LOVE TAKES THE STAGE

You entered my life like the swell of an overture

A dancer stepping into the light

bearing the weight of a thousand unspoken things

Your plié was not just a bend

It was the earth itself lowering for you

each tendu traced longing into the air

and grief, with its quiet hands

pulled the strings of your arabesque.

I tried to follow you into the dance

but your pirouette was the moon spinning away

always one heartbeat beyond reach

You leapt—a grand jeté that tore the sky

and I, rooted in the shadows of the wings

felt my chest crack open like the stage beneath you.

Love with you is a pas de deux of contradictions

I am both your anchor and your flight

the arms that lift you toward the heavens

and the weight that keeps you bound to the earth.

When we move together

grief and joy intertwine like ribbons

threading the silence between us

In adagio, you linger

each movement a whisper of what we’ve lost

But in allegro, your laughter breaks like glass

a wild rhythm that cuts and heals in the same beat

You spin happiness into gold

only for it to dissolve into the dark

When the curtain falls,

I am left holding the ghost of your last step

a memory so fragile

it shatters beneath my breath.

But even in your absence, the music plays on.

I feel you in the shadows of the barre

in the soft echo of pointe shoes tapping time.

And when I close my eyes

you are there again, dancing—

as pas de chat through my heart.

Your love is an endless ballet

its beauty breaks me

its sorrow lifts me

and I would follow you across every stage

even into forever

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