Dancing
Dancing over the moonlit lake
Under the soft silver light
Between the earth and the heavens
Courting
Dancing the dance of love
Around the stars, around each other
Dizzying, exhilarating
Searching
Searching for the one that calls our hearts
The one who is destined for us
The one we will spend our lives with
So fragile
Our lives are so short, transient,
Delicate like our silken wings
Every day a journey towards death
But for new life
We search, we search for a partner
To share our short lives with,
So our race can live on
And at the end, we die.
All our life departs in a breath,
All our strength, our dance wavers, stops
We fade, fade…
Mating, death, all that will come later.
For now, at this very moment,
All that matters is the dance.
So we dance our hearts out
Dance for love, for joy, for life
Patterns shining against the night,
Under the glowing moon
And as long as we dance it well,
We do not have to care for the future.