Monday, June 17, 2024

Dancing on the edge of extinction Sept. 20, 2013

 

 

The dance goes on.

If you stop moving,

 you cease to exist

And so, you dress up,

 show up, cheer yourself up

in order to tell the world

 it all hasn’t gone to shit

 when it seems it might

 at any moment,

 and you need to be

eloquent enough

to handle it with grace,

 dancing on the edge of extinction

as if the alternative,

the misstep,

 the plunge into doom

 is unthinkable.

While the world spins

 the wrong way on its axis,

 swirling around inside

and outside your head.

You dance because

you dare not stop

until the spinning ceases

 and who your partner is

 comes into focus,

 the man you love

or a man you don’t,

but loves you enough

 to fill you up for the moment,

 making you weep tears of joy

 and release

while you hide

what you really feel

in hope all will get better.

 



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