In Dance We Have What We Had Before

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:50 -- Jamesc
 
I
The body and the soul, they act as one.   
A tandem vehicle for change to come.   
While life on Earth's unbearable for some, 
I'll live my life until that life is done.   
My passion burns as does the glowing sun. 
My joys, they're born where hopes and dreams are from. 
My sorrows boil along the shore of glum, 
yet when we dance, I feel as tho I've won.   
In dance I feel the sorrow and the pain.   
In dance I feel desire and your touch.   
In dance I feel your absence and your space.   
In dance I feel like I might be insane.   
In dance I feel like God and live so much 
That I create a new world with my grace.   
 
And when we dance, emotions become new 
Just like a phoenix rising from the ash 
And when we dance, we're innocent and green 
We have our youth to cherish all life long.   
 
 II
O cradle me soul, like a babe in the night.   
In dance we have what had before.   
In dance we have what we had before 
all the lies and curses that came from my mouth.   
In dance we have what we had before.   
 
And when we dance we have so many things 
That Midas would be pleased to have so much.   
 
We have our sanity and minds, for one.   
We have our bodies– able, bold, and young.   
 
We have our love and loneliness and longing.   
We have the things that death could not remove 
We have our fun times and bad.  
We have the golden days of old.   
We have our rainbow tinted sunshine, 
and our tender kisses skipping on the skin.   
We have our lovers and our beloved. 
We have our sex, and lies, and sin.   
We have our countless stories and poems, 
all our fiction and our truth.   
We have our childhood and our lust  
all lost in our days of youth.   
 
We have what we've wanted all along.   
We have our happiness and our good lives. 
We have our money and our kids.  
We have our safety and our health. 
We have the lies we tell ourselves  
like "We have protection from ourselves," 
or "We have got this under control," 
or "We have thought about this before," 
or "We have peace of mind when we go to sleep at night," 
or "We have enough balls to stand up and fight," 
and "We have to stay together," 
and "We have to win the war," 
and "We have to stay alive," 
and "of course I don't cry at night." 
 
 III
O cradle me soul, like a babe in the night.   
In dance we have what had before.   
In dance we have what we had before 
all the lies and curses that came from my mouth.   
In dance we have what we had before.   
 
We have our fights and our trivial matters. 
We have our makeup sex and our licking 
Ice cream on a Sunday afternoon 
after skipping church and smoking weed in the bathroom  
of the Walmart on the corner of avenues 52  
and 69ing in the back of your car.   
Our morning fucks  
and our movie nights. 
All hell could freeze over and we'd skate on the ice.   
We have our love.  
We have our sorrow. 
We have our pain 
and our "I'll see you tomorrow"'s  
We have our goodbyes and  
We have our sins, 
But in dance that's when I see you again.   
 
O cradle me soul, like a babe in the night.   
In dance we have what had before.   
In dance we have what we had before 
all the lies and curses that came from my mouth.   
In dance we have what we had before.   
 
 
This poem is about: 
Me
Our world
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