Let's dance

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”

                                                          ― Susan Polis Schutz

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What does joy look like

 Feel like

I hate to admit it

But I will never dance in the sun, with flowers in my hair

At this point I am more likely  to do a feeble jig

Than to dance wildly

I am more bionic man

Than wood nymph

There are screws and devices scattered throughout my body

And I didn’t even wear a flowered shirt in the 60’s

Let alone now

But there are moments when as I wander through the

a plain gray day, body screaming, mind tired

my inner child skips freely

and rejoices in the sacred light

that finds its way through every

crack and fissure

of my wrinkled tired soul

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen