The Dance
I have sent you my invitation
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living
Dont jump up and shout "Yes, this is what I want! Lets do it!"
just stand up quietly and dance with me.
Show me how you follow your deepest desires,
spiraling down into the ache within the ache,
and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward
to feel the kiss of the mystery, sweet lips on my own every day.
Dont tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.
Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without
abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.
Tell me a storey of who you are
and see who I am in the stories I am living
and together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.
Dont tellme how wonderful things will be........ someday
show me you can risk being completely at peace
truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment
and again in the next and the next and the next.......
I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring
Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall
the place you cannot go beyond and the strength of your own will
what carries you to the other side of that wall
to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?
And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the
clear healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other
let us risk remembering that we never stop silenty loving those we once loved out loud.
Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance
the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart
and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet
and the starts overhead make my heart whole again and again.
Show me how you take care of business
without letting business determine who you are
when the children and fed but still the voices within and around us
shout that souls desires have too high a price
let us remind each othere that it is never about the money
Show me how you offer to your people and the world
the stories and the songs you want our childrens children to remember
and I will show you how I struggle
not to change the world but to love it.
Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude
knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging
Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words
holding neither against me at the end of the day.
And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest
intentions has died away on the wind
dance with me in the infinate pause before the next great inhale
of the breath that is breathing us all into being
not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.
Dont say "Yes"!
Just take my hand and dance with me.
Jodie "undertheweather" Hungry
- 14 years, 8 months, 21 days ago
