The Adored (Dance Hall Days Suite)

The original version of The Adored has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Flora Borsi.

Listen to The Adored by Richard Charles Stevens (Dance Hall Days Suite)

Listen to Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung

for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
my eyes can see a thousand miles
my lips impress a thousand smiles
my cheeks are blushed like crowded aisles
my heart in fullest bloom
its beat is wild
untamed and famed of every shade to coarse my veins
unchained they shuttle shuttered rays
to every thought anew
.
i feel such in my deepest heart
as each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
.
feel such in my deepest heart
as each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
for all adored
for all adored
for all adored
for all adored
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
my eyes can see a thousand miles
my lips impress a thousand kisses
each a wish to keen ellipsis
in their keep a sea of riches
heart in fullest bloom
its beat is wild
inflamed and true
each shade and hue a fragrant butterfly
to every thought anew
.
i feel such in my deepest heart
as each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
.
feel such in my deepest heart
as each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
each beat touched entreats advance
.
advance
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
advance
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
advance
.
a thousand kisses true
advance
a thousand kisses true
advance
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
both sun and moon appraised—in aged refrain
to make ornate the changeless view
.
true
true
true
advance
.
advance
dance
.
the birds and bees confer with ease
the conifers are evergreen
dead leaves crunch beneath my feet
and still i feel them breathe—appeased
to simply be and cease to be the victims of predictive breeze
whispers in the boughs of intervening trees—no ceiling beams
steep increase bids dear release to every leaflet seeking peace
dandelions lead the dance to sweet sheet music steeped of chance
.
true
true
true
.
i feel such in my deepest heart
as each beat touched entreats advance
.
i am an explorer
of the world within my mind
all seeds and spores adored
enthroned and flawlessly entwined
i am a conquistador
the kind inclined to drift ashore
and it would be remiss of me
to be an aweless mystery
.
been to hell
its kiss did tell
of ways to break the mystic spell
redefine holistic health
find my true artistic self
shattered heart of glass refined
arm the shards of fractured mind
feel such in my deepest scars
where every needful bleed be charmed
.
charmed
charmed
charmed
.
charm
charmed
charmed
charmed
.
my eyes can see a thousand miles
my lips impress a thousand i love yous
.
youse
youse
.
each a wish to live and breathe
a thousand needful hearts in fullest bloom
.
bloom
bloom
.
their beat is wild
bled veins renewed
to savour every flawless thought anew
.
true
true
true
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.
for all adored
a thousand kisses true
.