The following piece is crowned as The Dance. It unravels the story of a hopeful lover, who finds love in the most fleeting manner, a dance. I decided to describe this form of impulsive, whimsical love by comparing it to a dance. Dancing, to me, is an expression of the soul. The Caribbean culture embraces dancing as celebrated sensuality. Dance could also be used as an expression of victory, or happiness. Regardless of the purpose of the dance, it all comes to one thing - it has a beginning, climax and end.
The Dance shows how the love in play will end just as dancing would. They have a wonderful beginning, an explosive climax but sadly, the lover realizes that it will all be cut short soon enough much to their disappointment. The ending poses questions: will the desperate lover's pleas be heard? Will their love return for them? Or will it just simply end just like the dance? We will never know, maybe they hope for the impossible and deny the visible.
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." -Mata Hari
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