Life, I love the myriad of change and the way we all look for security.
My soulmates. ..
The Dance
I have sent you my invitation, the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living. Don't jump up and shout, "Yes, this is what I want! Let's do it!" Just stand up quietly and dance with me.
Show me how you follow your deepest desires, spiralling down into the ache within the ache. And I will show you how I reach inward and open outward to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, everyday.
Don't tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart. Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.
And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.
Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging. Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day.
And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.
Don't say, "Yes!"
Just take my hand and dance with me.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Excerpts from The Dance
Soul Funk House Flamenco Acoustic Jazz Blues Salsa Disco. Music with a full phat melody that makes me wistful, teary eyed, listen intently, excited, raise my hands in the air and clap them loud! Anything with a soul... deep electric soulful house, old school classic soul, jazz, blues (I'm mesmerized by the guitar), latin, disco, underground hip hop. No 50c please :) Clap those hands man! Stomp yo feet! Come alive!!
Everything, reading and creative writing are a constant vivid passion. Literary soulmates are Oriah Mountain Dreamer and Dean Koontz