<\/p>\n
When we are very young<\/p>\n
We dance, we sway<\/p>\n
Instinctively<\/p>\n
We watch others<\/p>\n
But we swirl on our own<\/p>\n
Letting the music take us and we take the music<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In youth we dance in circles<\/p>\n
Laughing<\/p>\n
Alcohol, the sensuality, the joy consumes us<\/p>\n
We stop only when the music stops<\/p>\n
Anxious to jump up again after a quick swig<\/p>\n
And an electric touch<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A few years later<\/p>\n
Responsibilities consume us<\/p>\n
Dancing is for the frivolous<\/p>\n
We dance when we must<\/p>\n
At weddings or parties<\/p>\n
Consumed by how we look<\/p>\n
How we measure up<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In middle age<\/p>\n
Our defenses begin to come down<\/p>\n
We move our feet to the music<\/p>\n
We get up for a few<\/p>\n
Smiling until we are out of breath<\/p>\n
Joyous until our bodies grow weary<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In old age<\/p>\n
We sit more, dance less<\/p>\n
We smile watching the young<\/p>\n
Wistfully trading places in our minds<\/p>\n
Our souls are lifted with the music<\/p>\n
Our bodies weighted with age<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In the end it is the music that pulls us<\/p>\n
Out of our bodies and to the light<\/p>\n
Weight gone, responsibilities relieved<\/p>\n
We no longer care about how we look<\/p>\n
We are our sensuality<\/p>\n
Our joyousness<\/p>\n
We dance into light<\/p>\n
Casting out our judgements and limitations<\/p>\n
We are the music<\/p>\n
We are the dance<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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