When We Can Dance
When you can dance
Don't walk
When you can together sing
Don't monologically talk
When you can bicamerally love
Don't just try not to be quite so bipolar lost
afraid and then angry and then afraid...
When you can exercise compassion
Don't just wear out passion
When you can creolize communions
Don't colonize others' ghettos
and gated lack of multicultural community
When you can shout Yes!
Don't just mumble I'm not not Sure?
When you can cooperatively transubstantiate communion
Don't just competitively devour disunion
When you are invited into an epic liberating journey
Don't just conservatively progress
When you can preserve Earth's vast beauty
Don't just conserve Business As Usual half truths
When you can accelerate joy
Don't slowly push on braking sorrow
When you can embrace rightbrain fulfilling feelings
Don't just calculate leftbrain acquisitive thoughts
When you already feel curious
Don't slow down for building up courage
When we can access democratically shared recovery
Don't autonomously seek ego-invested overpowering relief
When you can hear and smell cooperatively-owned home
Don't continue shopping for a visually competitive house
When you can hear and feel a resonantly-managed mind
Don't continue fantasizing your most beautiful competitive body
When you can hear and taste resiliently healthy Earth
Don't continue autonomously struggling for wealth extracting property
When you can live with globally compassionate significance
Don't settle for slowly dying in local safety
When you have freedom to liberally love regeneration
Don't conservatively worry about freedom from degeneration
While you can still dance
Don't just walk
While you can walk
Don't just crawl
While we can together positively crawl
Don't alone negatively crave.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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