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The Dance: Ram thai

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รำไทย

Your touch,
the purloiner of my diffidence,
has stripped my insecurities
and taught me to dance with all
generations.
Children bounce around at my feet
as I twirl my love
on the dance floor

I'm not in shape
My hips have never moved like this,
My feet step to a beat they've not yet
stepped to,
My lungs,
pant with the rhythm they've longed for.
And my knees keep banging into yours.

Your body is perfect
Your moves are precise
No woman will ever come close to you

I contend with every man in the room
yet you have chosen me
for this dance.
This life.
Your self-confidence fills me with life
I'm the only ginger in the room
dancing
Ram Thai

I trust you.
And I prove it by standing in the forefront
Revealing my identity
Just as you promised
they dance alongside me.

I have come to understand that nobody
really expects anything of me.
I could sit in the corner and be the
one left out
or I could get up and join the fray every
once and a while.
And be thankful I can.

I could be self-effacing
Unassertive
Timid
and Feeble
Or I can party
without purpose

I was born plain.
Attractive to some
but usually unwilling.
Today I am willing.
All I want to do
is take you in my arms
and dance.
I've sat so long I am out of shape.
Let me dance back in it.

You won't let me think of myself as anything less than
what I am.
Because of this I'm no longer ashamed
of the gifts I buy you;
I'm not ashamed of their lack of extravagence,
because the real gift is me to you
and you to me.
I have revolutionized myself
so that you may revolutionize me further.

Let time slow down.
May I experience each season in its fullness
I don't want to say it was like any other winter,
rather
it was like no other winter I had seen before.

I'm getting older.
Everyday I see the age compiling onto my flesh,
my eyes deepen,
my face saddens.
My lower teeth are visible when I speak...
Yesterday they weren't.
Yesterday I was young and fresh
but I've allowed today to catch up.

I don't care to feel young again
I just want to dance with you forever.
For my wife
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getting old is a bitch. no more dancing for me. good poem