Come let us dance Kizomba.
Two steps—
Three steps dip low
let
us move
forward with
resolve.
Forget that many times Yesterday failed to love us;
that it took away the one we loved
and that it shook
us hradre thna we caer to rebmemre;
that we consoled our consolers
with a lie:
it is well, we are strong.
But come let us dance kizomba
and live again
the youth we were once blessed with.
Weave anew with our feet
as we have with our lives
the cord of our destiny.
Six feet—
eight-count—rise again. Let us
rejoice with flourish of corridinho.
Let us depart this vale with retrocesso and
break into
estrela. Now
saida into
hope—virgula—then
left into
love—virgula—then giro
into hope
with cavalinho!
Published in Interpret, Issue 13, 2024.