Dervish

by

Mike Bayles

                              You captured the dance floor

                              as the plane for rotations

                              of your shadow figure

                              and the men stayed aside

                              unwilling to be left in your wake

                              and all I could do

                              was to watch from above

                              after you dropped into my world

                              and claimed my senses

                              with a wonderous spirit

                              the movements to song

                              your sinister inspiration

                              for the moment I watched

                              left unaware

                              if you were Heaven or Hell.