at a standstill

people want you to stand still
we've all gotten used to that
they are afraid when we move
when you move, there is little we can expect
from others but a judgement
and it is positive and negative, not just one side

I can't sit still.

so one day I decided,
"if they're gonna judge me,
they might as well judge me
on who I am inside..."

I talk the talk of the man inside
not the man you want to see
when I dance, I'll do I-dance
sense its the only one I's knows

I used to try to dance like everyone else
but I don’t try anymore, just feel
and my bad if you can’t help
but to love to hate to watch it

and it flows through the day
like water down my face
dripping off and establishing seduction within

seduce yourself, the reduction within

remember, I is tender
and relinquishes nothing untrue
much less lies from me to you
and within this imagination
comes the calm
of having less spins to doctor
to be more, of a doctor of spins

you do your dance too
just close your eyes do
and open your I’s
or do it at home, where nobody can see
its totally cool, if you’re not ready

its a celebration of being alive

but must I wait til 80
to show that desire?
will I still have the fire?
and find that more is less

and I must surely confess
stability is not standing there
frozen



©2000 by Yosh