words waiting for a dance

Other people’s words weigh heavier than mine:

they carry gravitas on their printed pages;

gold lettering shimmies their spines.

My words are poised, waiting like a debutante

to be called to the ballroom of the read,

to dance and twirl ’til your eye’s content.

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