Please forgive a little leaning: I am phototropic
On the matter of being upright, not leaning:
it is not a discipline of stiffness, but a light
and graceful dynamism.
Just meeting and then the dance. Sometimes
you lead and sometimes I lead but always
the lead is communion, not command.
Sometimes quick, sometimes slow and
sometimes
very still, very quiet.
I will really try not to lean in
even ever so slightly, but just lightly
meet, and see deeply into,
and open to you in trust and
pleasure. Because we arrived here
to delight each other, to hold
each other in the gracious embrace of practice,
to dance our dance together,
pas de deux, my dear. I rest
my hand lightly in yours and rise
up to meet you, upright, luminous
and filled with stars, because
we know this music
by heart.
Peg Syverson