Dance

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Dance!

That is not a title or suggestion, it is a command.

Dance is curiosity.
Don't let your body be some static vessel when it can be a world
containing continents of untouched vistas.
Your body can be a mountain range, monument to eons of tectonic motion. Your body can be the light breeze that breathes sweet relief on shoulders scorched by sunfire. Your body can be an oil slick, rainbow iridescence fueling nations even as it transmutes ragged asphalt into prismatic majesty.
How many trajectories can your arms trace out you've never traced before? If you refuse to trace them out, your remain uncharted territory to yourself, an explorer crouched by a dying campfire, surrounded by the dark, not knowing what lies beyond is your own dynamic beauty.

So dance!
Dance is self-expression.

As Martha Graham says, "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost."

Dance is how you scrape the entropy off your bones and remind yourself who you are.
You are not moving through the universe. You *are* the universe in ecstatic motion. You are satellite and butterfly, coral reef and lava flow.
How many people have lived and loved and died so you could move? How badly do they want to know who you are?
How much exuberance you can embody.
How much reverence?
How much sorrow, how much anger, how much joy?

Your body says a million things your voice cannot
You can chisel universes into retinas
So dance like everybody is watching

Every ' body is a firework
But some rot as heaps of unlit powder
Every ' body is a turbine, so
Rev yours up and watch the cityscape ignite
Pull the rip cord
Start the engine
Light the fuse

Light and sound are vibrations and so are you.

So dance!

Dance is liberation
Your hips, your shoulders have been shackled to ignorance and apathy and social expectation, and they murmur for release
There's a reason freedom is won thru social *movements*, and when something affects us, we are *moved.*
Let the world move you.

Dance!