when the fever breaks

 

when the fever breaks

 

 

strobe light love

blinded dancers with awkward moves

the music beats down the heart

 

intermittent advances

and retractions

produce wary reactions

 

and

strobe light love

as the floor twirls 

with the delight it feels

 

as resistance 

becomes insistence

and trust

 

in

strobe light love

falters

while what was once believed

 

is inexorably

altered.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

11/30/19

Reviews

[kentuck14]

Do I detect a thought in this poem to that old disco movie . . . "Saturday Night Fever?" People still disparage that old 70"s funky music . . . maybe not because of the sound itself, but those awful clothing styles!!!!! I remember dancing with my gal under a strobe light in a smoky crowed roadhouse in upstate NY in the early 70's . . . before disco. Fortunately for us . . . the fever never broke!!!
T

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, those days mingled in here, for sure.
thanks for sharing...yes, the awful styles...but the great dancing...thank you...for seeing the springboard to what this was.
j.

[DIVYA]

Like those disco lights on Saturday nights. Psychedelic, mind-bending play of music and light. The dancers move awkwardly, move for move, initial wariness turning to confidence, only to be lurched later. With strobe light love, the trip always ends, the fever always breaks and with it all the illusions.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, those illusions getting broken...thank you, DIVYA,
j.

[Christine Anne Shaw]

You got me dancing yeah. Great imagery here of people meeting on the dance floor amid the flashing lights and the heat. Oh what fun, and then you speak to them after the music and find that the flames are extinguished. They aren't who you thought .When someone opens there mouth and speaks, what a difference it can make. This one made me smile. It is so very relatable. Took me back in time. Great read Jacob.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for relating to this one, Chris.
yes, when the lights quite flashing...what do we have...when the song is over...what do we have?
j.