All Dancers Matter
Those who pray by marching
can pray alone
in endless competitions.
Those who pray while dancing
can only pray together
for timeless cooperations.
Hate and fear can only angry march
side by competing side
in uniformity of lock-step supremacy.
But love and compassion
can also truth and beauty dance
and sing
in full hope octaves
of multicolored harmony.
Resonant solidarity of ballrooms
and street performers
singing and chanting and drumming
good news gospel resonance
rather than bad news mono-marching hate.
We can sing and dance cooperatively
to angry patriarchal elitist marchers
more effectively than merely speak in not-kind shout,
and across,
and back and forth,
flow anthems up and out of all inclusive love songs.
This singing dance can,
with enough harmonic polycultured voices,
become sustained ego-happy filibusters
through marching hate,
marathons of love
proactively singing and dancing
alongside those marching through dualdark fear and anger,
inviting them to rejoin
our dancing gospel choir.
For every hate-mongering military march,
we have thousands of love-mentoring lyrics,
and,
therefore,
potential dancing lyricists.
Anger and marching paranoia are mutually competitive
double-binding allies,
as are love song and grace of dance mutually harmonic.
We can choose to march and shout ourselves apart,
but we would more democratically,
and gracefully,
prefer to dance and sing our cooperative ways together.
Those who pray while dancing
can only pray together
for timeless cooperations.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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