Playing With Fire

by Dan Bloom   Jul 14, 2008


Dancing in a crowded room
You beckon me to follow these ritualistic movements
Have you thought about what you're asking?
Do you still want me to dance?

If it is that important
I will dance most uncomfortably to satisfy you
But shouldn't we be alone to do this together?
Do you still want me to dance?

A pounding and deafening beat
Causes the majority to be lovers with strangers
Their lustful eyes have focused upon me
Do you still want me to dance?

Hypnotized by your perfected motions
I am convinced to break and partake
Instantly I become surrounded by this plague
Do you still want me to dance?

Contagiously I become infected
My eyes are burning with lust as our hips form together
Nauseating symptoms creep inside of my body
Do you still want me to dance?

My mind begins to wander
Selfishly I press against your body to satisfy myself
While the vulturous women await your departure
Do you still want me to dance?

Exhausted, you take a break
Leaving me surrounded and helplessly preyed
Alone I am feasted upon being torn at my seams
Do you still want me to dance?

I shrug the guilt off my shoulders
And try to enjoy myself like you have wanted all along
A new side of me has been created
Do you still want me to dance?

Feeding the beast I released
I forget my commitment and covenant to natural urges
Exchanging names, numbers, and innocence
Do you still want me to dance?

You return to dance with me
But I have disappeared with the new "friends" I have made
Still touching and appeasing our built tension
Do you still want me to dance?

We travel together
To a place we can seclude ourselves privately
Laughing and flirting we decide to sit down
Do you still want me to dance?

I notice the beat has diminished
As we lay down in unison in our chamber of secrets.
Silence is broken as we make our own music
Do you still want me to dance?

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  • 15 years ago

    by Renee

    Yeah, I also liked the line exchanging names, numbers, and innocence. I think I've heard it somewhere else though. But it's still awesome and that it's true. People like that are odd. And those relationships never last. Meh j rambled

  • 16 years ago

    by Lizzi

    As do I.

  • 16 years ago

    by Renee

    I like it

  • 16 years ago

    by RetroRavey

    I would tell you which was my favorite part but I don't think I should put your whole poem in this comment. I'm not usually sucked into a poem, but that poem pulled me in and kept my entire attention span until the very last sylable. There was one line that stood out to me the most:

    " Exchanging names, numbers, and innocence"

    It just caught me for second and I had to reread it. It's sad sometimes how true that really is... This is one of those lines that tells a whole story in few words, to me at least.

    You have a great command of language, every stanza was like it's own little vivid world... I'm adding this poem and you to my favorites, just so you know. Amazing work!

    5/5 defanitely

    ~Ravyn

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