Beautiful dancing man

I.
o
beautiful
dancing man

i thank you
for a thousand lessons
and a million
special graces
you gave
you give

II.
there are no words
for love this deep
the love you
the will you
the style you
lived

you gave me
me beyond my understanding

who else?
could
would
does
love so deeply

III.
o
joy beyond pain
treasure offered
misunderstood

o heartbreak and
happiness
no difference

your hand reaches back
your words
lessons of hope and
will and
seeing and
love
your actions
your
everything
dancing
beckons
"Come, cross the great water.
Energy. Consciousness.
It is life. It is sex.
It is love. It is death.
It is you."

IV.
o
beautiful dancing man

thank you for placing my feet
here
where they've always been

V.
o
most compassionate
thunderbolt

sky bright bell
clear
light of the void

thank you for all
entrances

VI.
all i was
was rough edge
but you saw
the smooth soft sturdy flow
of light

no one else
knew

VII.
we fought ourselves
by fighting you

you
understood
hurt
forgave
hurt
warned
hurt
saw
hurt

did everything
and
we?

now we
have nothing to
fight
but
everything that stands
between ourselves
and you

VIII.
o
most precious jewel

there is no end
or beginning
to
the blessings

no accounting for
all this
Light

IX.
radical buddhist yogini
this
you have made me
ripped into a million pieces
and then
remolded
ten thousand times over

my heart my cry my eye
love laughter being
all made of light

X.
o
beautiful
dancing
man

you dance the dance
that all the worlds
were born from

when Rama becomes Shiva
the world
dances
between dimensions
and we
?

shall we dare
to dance
too
?

-- Deborah Elms