You might not see it...

But if I could only dance for you.

If I could dance,
I’d changement your low expectations,
Arabesque them right through the glass ceiling
Of who do you think you are?
And
What’s so different about you?

I’d plier so deep,
Even the bottom of your disbelief
Would follow the grace of my knees,
Tracing the curvature of my neck,
Enveloped in the fire I’m spreading.

They always told me I was a jumper,
Pushing heights with my jeters,
Whisking tradition off my dance floor,
With each change of the ankle.

I could teach you how to walk,
Heel, Ball, Change. Heel, Ball, Change.
I could teach you how to walk,
Hip, Hip, Hip, Hip.
I could teach you how to walk,
Brush, Brush, Quiet!

I can teach you how to dance.

I can’t teach you how to spot,
Because I never learned to keep my focus on a single point.
I can’t teach you a split,
Because I never wanted to stay on the ground.

I can teach you how to feel.

I know how to fly.
To beat to the rhythm of eights,
With big hands pressing harder
On my already aching arches,
To spin with no fear
That I’d end up,
On the other side of the mirror,
Still looking myself in the eyes,
Seeing everything,
From the flames on my back,
To my sweat on the floor,
And my body unleashed,
For the catharsis
Of desire.



CLR

The Stand

She stood there
in the bad light
in the good light
waiting
and he stood watching her,
but not she
and the whole time I wished he were
watching me.
When Dawn broke, and
she said no
he waited for
her, his eyes aglow
he touched her face
the answer was another no
and then came the day when last and
certainly least,
he turned and smiled at me.

SITB

Once Upon a Stranger

Once upon a Stranger stole my heart.
And when it mirrored the very beginning,
He spoke to me about the very end.
I watch him carry it away, perspective,
making things smaller and harder to see,
until the very reflection of the mirror,
was taken away from me.
And every now and then I see a glimmer,
of him walking around, letting my heart shimmer.
I wait for the day for it once again to be mine,
and for the day it for him, no longer shines.

SITB