Favorite Fridays

This weeks poem is by my good friend Patrick Campbell. Having this blog has given me so many opportunities to get get to know my friends better through reading their beautiful poetry. Patrick's lovely words are no exception.

Infinite Dancers

By: Patrick Campbell

There exists no greater love than that of

Sol and Luna,

The Sun and The Moon.

Their love has been

Talked about in hushed whispers

Amongst Gods and mortals,

And written about by poets and scribes

Throughout all of Time as they slowly and endlessly

Waltz among the stars.

Their love paints the skies

As they dance around the Earth,

Like a painter’s brush gently glides across

The blank white canvas,

Coloring the world.

It burns passionately, turning  

Vibrant, golden-yellow to

Fiery hot crimson as the day ends

And becoming shrouded in dark, purple mystery

When nighttime arrives.

They bathe the world in their ever changing aurora,  

Casting dancing lights and playful shadows as they

Spin and pirouette, stepping in rhythm

To their crescendoing heartbeats,

Becoming the muses for countless other love stories.

Forbidden is their love, however.

The two never meet with one another,
Never in the right place at the right time.

The Moon only rises when the Sun sets

And the Sun only wakes when the Moon is laid to rest.

The dancing doesn’t die, not even for a moment

And the two continue their ceaseless tango.

Always longing, always apart

Always flirting, Always in Love.

Forever trapped in a never ending cycle

Never fully entrenched in eternal light

Nor completely submerged in perpetual darkness.

So they laugh and they weep,

For what there is

For what there was

And for what there never will be.

The true star-crossed lovers

Forever dancing in the Cosmos

Until the needle is lifted and

The music stops.