We were born in motion
After nine months unfurling to our
mother’s heartbeat
Cells multiplied into systems, building bones
and brains and blood
Pulses synched, composing spines,
formulating feet
Then something happened
As we learned to balance on our own two feet
We learned there was a right way and a
wrong way to move them
We learned there were rules to being human
We learned to speak when it was our turn,
walk in single file lines
Squeeze our “wild” into business suits and
pretend that we feel fine
We stopped listening to the humming
of our veins
Signed off from the senses that shake us awake
And we chose screams over flesh, minds
swept up in a fury of distraction
We forgot that every time we breathe, I
inhale part of you and exhale part of me
We forgot that we all share the same pulse
We forgot there is another way and that
we’ve known it
Since that tiny cluster of cells turned into
the first kick in our mother’s womb
See, we’ve got a direct line of communication
to the rhythm living in the space beneath
our minds
The one that beats our hearts in time
Part of us has always known how to dance
And when we do, we remember that the
users’ manual we picked up on the way to
this planet
Is in our guts
Rhythm will rewire our lives if we let it
If we return to the dance floor, rediscover
the beat that goes straight to our bones
And stomp our feet until sweat falls in our eyes
And we’re moving too quick for society’s grip
to hold us back
What if we could rise up from where we are
rooted, meet each other like a long lost
harmony
Dance as if we shared the same five senses
as if our feet were planted on the same
small planet
Our veins running the same red blood
We forget why we ever stopped listening
We forget why we fought ourselves in the
first place
We forget why we fight each other
We forget all the made up lessons we learned
along the way because we didn’t have to go
to school for this
This is who we are; this is what we’re made
of; this is why we came here
We came to dance
