Dance with me as if
Your mind were on fire
Your feet electrified and wild
As if the moon were tearing you apart
The sun thrashing you
Like a redheaded stepchild
Dance with me as if
Your life depended on it
As if all the night were a drum
Beating you into a frenzy
Of exultant jubilation
Of foot stomping and hip gyration
Dance with me as if
You had nothing to lose
Your fists punching out stars
Your pulse an engine cranking
Piston limbs, your heart a bomb
Your fingers the fuse
Dance with me as if
To move in sync like this
Were the most pure expression
Of an atavistic obsession
With divinity, knowing for a moment
That tremulous fear and elation
Gods must feel for their creations
Dance with me as if
Abandoning all self control
And strapping yourself to a comet
Would fling you body and soul
Into a galaxy of ecstasy
Immersed in a deep and abiding love
Complete and whole
Dance with me, just dance with me
So I can hold you as close as this
Looking into your eyes, smiling
As we sway our way to transcendence
Not just the vertical manifestation
Of a horizontal need but to be here
In this moment, alive and free
© shaun patrick green 2016
