Dancing On Needle Pins Comments

This is a poem of compromise. It seems to come out of an exhaustion or weariness with things as they stand. So the compromise is not a balance of competing issues which is satisfying to both parties, it's more like a truce, a provisional set up. There might be a degree of humor implied in the dance metaphor but it's not sufficent to rescue the speaker from her glum acceptance. There are no false promises offered, and the speaker's thoughts remain opaque. I feel for her. She deserves better.