Can We Dance The Night Away?

Can we dance the night away

like Scott and Zelda did?

My teens had something

my twenties didn’t.

It had the beauty of the waltz.

It had the glamor of Hollywood.

It had so much more than

what purple haze had.

It was in my teens that I died

in the inside with the fear of losing.

But I never knew that I lost myself

in the process of what the arts had.

Can we dance the night away?

Can we be intertwined as the music

gets us lost to the beat?

Can we be one once more?

I can still smell the odor it left.

I can still taste the alcohol

that we’ve drank together.

But we both knew it was wrong.

We did it anyway.

We did the things that people

can’t stay away from.

But how can they know?

We’re only human after all.

We’re only seeing the things

that made us dance

like they did in the Twenties.