Dance Wearing A Costume Poem by Grant House

Dance wearing a costume
Become the character
In that character
Find freedom
Freedom to express yourself
To be who you really are
An expression of the timeless creative force
Unconstrained by
Expectations
Self-limitations
Familiarity

Behind the facepaint, the mask
Dance like children do
Making up who they want to be
Exploring
Playing
Putting on emotions like clothes
Trying on others
Gliding on to the next steps
And the next
In touch with the immediacy of now

Tomorrow morning
Put on your costume with intention
Dress like an emotion you are trying on
Feel the freedom you felt as a child
Be who you really are
The timeless creative force
Unconstrained
Free
What if you let it all go
And became the extraordinary unlimited person
Or the untamed wild animal
You always wanted to be!