[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[lee michel alley]

Wow, that really speaks to my heart,
thank you, Riantee!
Love,Lee

> On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:16 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Riantee ~~~~ Fantastic poem ~!!!!!! 
> 
>> On Jan 11, 2022, at 8:43 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> The Dancer
>>>  
>>> I am the puppet of the divine,
>>> I dance,
>>> movements not really mine,
>>> sounds my voice modulates
>>> not from me but from that other one
>>> far away and yet so close,
>>> so foreign and intimate
>>> I barely recognize him
>>> muffled as he has been,
>>> until I danced.
>>>  
>>> I move to the music of the galaxies,
>>> elliptical motion in infinite space,
>>> eminently full emptiness.
>>> I slip into the void,
>>> I arrive,
>>> I am nothingness,
>>> I am here,
>>> I am.
>>>  
>>> With a lascivious roll of my pelvis,
>>> one imperceptible caress of my hand
>>> on your invisible waist
>>> I balance the world perfectly,
>>> I am whole
>>> I am all
>>> I am not.
>>>  
>>> When the wet grass bristle
>>> with eloquence,
>>> I dance along the trail well traveled
>>> and suddenly,
>>> the thousand bells of incarnation ring all at once.
>>> I’m not sure I want to know that much,
>>> so I dance.
>>>  
>>> I have traveled those paths with you my love
>>> many times,
>>> but now,
>>> on the verge of making the big jump,
>>> I hesitate,
>>> It might sever the cords that keep me here,
>>> with you,
>>> so I dance.
>>>  
>>> Those cords held me down,
>>> tied me to the ones I loved,
>>> but if I take that leap
>>> my attention might split,
>>> and as I pass through
>>> innumerable sensory experiences
>>> I might dissipate into wonder
>>> and would not return to you
>>> my love,
>>> so I dance.
>>>  
>>> I am afraid
>>> of that dazed exhaustion
>>> as my feet follow the spiral evolution
>>> of human consciousness,
>>> but when I dance
>>> I know fear to be the fuel
>>> that moves me to love’s wisdom.
>>>  
>>> I can burn all my bridges,
>>> throw caution to the wind,
>>> plunge into the unknown,
>>> and still come back to my lover,
>>> when I dance.
>>>  
>>> When I dance
>>> I entrust the strings to my master,
>>> I am the puppet of the divine.
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