Truth

I danced tonight
Jumped around to the same song
That played in my empty post-divorce house
While you shimmied and shook my soul to tears
Your eyes catching the candlelight
And reflecting it back like pulsars
Tonight I lit a candle
But I could only close my eyes
And dance with arms outstretched
Listening to you sing the lyrics off-key
And feel your ghostly waist in my fingers

My prying eyes finally found your face
Snooping around like a bumbling spy
Until I discovered your image
And at last I had proof you were real
Nothing in your expression
Contradicted my exaggerated memories
I thought I had rewritten you
But now I remember
It was all true