I cannot dance

I never learned to

dance with that is

of course I can

dance alone

when movement flows

from my core

eventually I did and

ever since I've barely stopped

learning slowly to

discard disregard

shame and embarrassment )

Once I was still

in a circle of people

I asked them to drum

in their own time

and their own ways

in a sense that was

with even intimate

though collective

centred through me so

not personal one to

one that no

no I cannot do but …

I wish that I could

you teach me?

Slowly gently patiently