You are the Dancer

(Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak on Unsplash)

You, who want life to always be the same 

always open, always flowing, always free.  

You, who desire only expansion.  

You do not realize that expansion must always pair with contraction. 

They are a couple

 never separate, always conjoined, always in intricate and subtle conversation

Contraction brings you back from the edge  

It pulls you close, and yes, sometimes keeps you stuck  

Contraction invites your longing  

the closed heart yearns for opening 

Contraction stokes imagination and inspires new flights 

drawing in - is the safe landing zone after wild adventures, even if they were only imagined.

You my dear, are a dance of both. 

Your very heartbeat is a pulse of contraction and expansion

 Your breath moves with expansive inhale, contractive exhale  

Your life is sustained by pulsing, vibrating, dancing between the two

That your heart should do the same - open and close down again - is no surprise.  

it is the natural way of things

  it is the natural energy of life  

You don’t need to stop it.  There’s nothing to grasp onto.

Let the moods come and go.  

Passing through as invited guests - welcome visitors - moving on as the day fades.  

All of this is a dance,

the rhythmic dance that started before you were born 

and will continue long after your bones turn to dust.

Expanding Opening Creating

Something arises, it is created

exists for a moment or an eon

until it must again give way

Dissolve, Contract back upon itself

making space for the next opening

What you do not know is You are the Dancer. 

You are empowered to dance the dance of your heart

with skill and grace, confidence and conviction.

This dance isn’t happening all around and TO YOU

This dance is happening all through and FOR YOU

Enter the dance: Dance the dance with all of you

Full self. Full agency. Full Heart.

Be creative in your destructions.  

Tear down what no longer needs sustaining

create anew and pour your energy into nourishing what arises

Hold nothing back

leave all of yourself on the dance floor

until the moment your form gives way

then……… dissolve