Dance

 

I want to do that thing

            ? Lord

I want to do that beautiful walk

            ? God

by the river when it rushes in Spring & drowns out

            al the noise of the human world

                                    I want!  I cannot describe it!

 

            Like a Pictish Dancer

                        eyes round, lined blue

                        by the wonder of

                        The One who lives in a beautiful dream

 

I want swallows to fly out of my mouth

            whenever You speak

            fly out of my mouth

                        & eyes into the sky &

                                    through another's heart

                                                & another's & another's

 

stars as my dress, skirts of hay, blouse of wind,

poems in my hair

hair like a thousand horses running

across a plain long before humans existed there

 

                        ?Earth & Night:  get together now

                        ΩSun & Moon:            light our way

 

I want us all together, dancing toward the River

Boedecca's children, riding bareback

 

I want brightly colored rags tied to my body all over

         so when I dance, they will swirl

 

   I want drums by the millions, footbells, cymbals, horns made

                       of everything, tree trunks even

 

  Give us wildflowers flourishing & everyone rolling, rolling, rolling

         down a hill                                                &  up into Paradise

                & up                                               &  up

                        &  up                            &  up

                                                &         

 

 

 

 

 

© 2008 Dixie J-Elder