Dancin’ the blues

Is a complicated business;

First, you focus on the rhythm,

Then you try to feel

How your partner moves,

Fumbling to sway with his groove:

Most of all, you strain to blend with

All the glory of

That music,

In three or four pressurised minutes,

When you concentrate intensely

On all these elements.

If you can surrender

To the beat, your partner,

That music,

Your soul starts to sing and soar,

Melting into your man

As one conjoined, ecstatic being,

Hearts pulsing in melody -

And you don’t even know

You are smiling.