third set

Someone,

somewhere,

is playing

a waltz

and I am here,

instead, in stillness

and in silence while

all around me the universe

marks out time as 1 – 2 – 3 –

Someone,

somewhere,

is playing

a waltz

and I am here,

instead, on the edges

of a cosmic dance floor

while all of existence swirls

around me in a show of

dizzying arrays and bewildering displays

of sound and taste and color.

Someone,

somewhere,

is playing

a waltz

and I am here

to learn to dance.