To live is to dance, was Darcie’s great passion
Life pulsing through her in graceful fashion
Quietly luminous bohemian beauty
Gentle, soft-spoken, audacious and gutsy

Piscean artist: burning fiercely as flames
Her supple dancing dynamic range
Hard work, talent, dance study age seven
Budding career seemed ever certain

We met in third grade became true friends
Otherworldly girl: time knows no end
Caught up in our imaginary world
‘Twas more real to us than here and now

Me: moved in and out of Sacramento
She: arts high school in San Francisco
Our dance evolving with ebb and flow
Attuned as one, yet we dance alone

Darcie’s rising star Julliard bound
Encouraged and mentored by Trisha Brown
Traveled back east to finalize her plans
One last trip before fruition’s dance

Her cherished dreams were not to be
Traffic accident in NYC
Three weeks ‘fore her 19th birthday
Across rainbow bridge she danced away

To live is to dance, was Darcie’s great passion
Life pulsing through her in graceful fashion
Quietly luminous bohemian beauty
Gentle, soft-spoken, audacious and gutsy

You were fully alive and always will be