A gift of this new year—a poem to the heartbeat of a call. With gratitude to the sage dancers who without fanfare feed the holy of holies by dancing.
The Mystics of all religions say it’s true.
Even Scientists agree that DNA
Is Love Dancing Now and Always.
The dancing soulway is ever here.
All praise to the spiral dance encoding us
In zig zags of witness, the heat of drums
The breasts abloom with joy. Remember!
No one lays hold of this or any movement.
Hidden? Jesus said, “Who does not dance
Does not know what comes to pass.” [1]
Breath’s pink mystery dances beneath
The error that we are danceless, unwhole.
DNA! Dancing Now and Always! Divinity
Makes love to us, spins and raises us in
Haunting improvisations and dreams
To jolt us out of hell’s frozen disorder.
Till by unbelievable beauty an angel moves
To quake, grieve, awaken, beget us again
Poised with open arms to entrance us
Again and again through Love’s wide gate.
Prayer:
Give us courage to move, to invest in love’s
Singular work, to advance our daily prayer
Unharnessed from heavy want and duty
Never forgetting to return our DNA to You.
Cynthia Winton-Henry