Poetry: Dance Fight Love

[suewritero]

 Author SueWriteRo (DW)/WriteRo (LJ)
Title Dance Fight Love
Rating and warnings R 
Word count 169
Medium Poetry
Setting S6 during Buffy and Spike’s affair


He called it a dance

She just sees it

As a fight,

Another battle to be won.

He's not a partner

Not a lover

Just another demon

That's what she tells herself

Even though she knows

It's not true.

Even as she throws a

Punch to his jaw

Spins into a roundhouse

Kick that sends him

Flying

She knows this is more

Than just a fight

She knows he's right.

It's a dance

Complicated,

Fluid,

Athletic,

Still a dance

She'd love to sit it out

But knows she must

Dance with him

See it through to the

End, bitter, painful,

End. Knowing even as she

Throws punch after punch

Kick after kick

That the end is tragedy

Pain of a different kind

For her

For him

For both of them.

But still she's helpless to stop it

And so they dance

And fight

And fuck

And in the end destroy

Each other

Broken dolls at the end of the

Day, like other broken

Dolls in the

Universe, this

Universe... .

Comments

[zanthinegirl]

Broken dolls at the end of the

Day, like other broken

Dolls in the

Universe,

Great imagery. Love this!

[suewritero]

Thank you again! I'm glad you like it. :D

I was feeling so angsty this go around...

[zanthinegirl]

Angsty is appropriate for Our Heroes, so it works for me!

[bruttimabuoni]

Ow, ow, ow, but lovely all the same!

[suewritero]

Yeah... it was very brittle.

[waddiwasiwitch]

This really describes that mutually destructive place they were in. Wonderful.

[suewritero]

I think that's what draws me to their relationship. It could have been something so wonderful, but they were both so damaged they could only hurt each other.

[rebcake]

Oh, so right — but it hurts.

Lovely work.

[suewritero]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

[lutamira]

He called it a dance
She just sees it
As a fight

(but not)

I really really like this piece. Again, it is so cool to see the Spuffy story told through a different medium, and I think the dance, and Buffy's POV both work really well here.

Is dolls a little bit meta? Like all of Joss' dolls get broken??? Either way, I like the imagery.

[suewritero]

I'm getting back into writing poetry and I find I like it so much more. I'm glad you liked it.

You know... *tilts head and looks at the poem again* ... it could be... It wasn't what I meant, but yeah... it could be seen that way. Thanks for the feedback!

[spikeslou]

You captured exactly the tone of their S6 relationship, well done.