illustration: SHATTERED

DANCE UNTIL YOU DANCE


You are not your body
You are not your wisdom
You are not your clothes
without them all you still exist

Your mind is not your own
All thoughts are patterns
pieced together like a suit of mirrors
reflections of yesterday
reflections of all that is not you
reflections of some other reflection
shaped and stitched into place
with threads of insecurities and doubt

Your ego has become a social product
labeled like a soup can
tattooed with tradition

In time
you move less and less
for fear a single fragment
of your great glass facade
will
fall
and shatter like an egg

And what of the hole
that is left behind?

I say
Dance
dance until all fear is broken
Dance until your soul is naked
dance until you are no more.