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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.

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