Danse Macabre

By Naima Averoff

To you I entrust my life,

This frivolous dance,

Rapid,

Dangerous,

Yet exhilarating.

This dance we call life,

I crave it.

Yet I dip off the edge.

A dance with death as I taunt fate

Memento Mori

As the music ends,

I drop.

For I am finally free