The Body That Remembered Dance

The Body That Remembered Dance

I slipped beneath thought without warning

This memory had been waiting for years

and finally found the opening to return

The room I knew dissolved

replaced by stone warmed through time

a place not imagined, only re-entered

My feet touched a floor that felt familiar

not by sight, by recognition in the bones

It was crossed it before my birth in this life

I was not told who I was

I simply became aware of what already existed

A dancer

Not for eyes of others

not for applause or witness

movement as language older than speech

Each step rose without effort

each turn arrived as certainty

My body had been waiting alifetime to tell its truth

The air responded, shifting around motion

holding space the way water holds light

There was no question in me

only continuity

as though nothing had ever interrupted this knowing

Then it began to fade

receding like tide returning to deeper ground

I came back slowly

carrying something wordless in my chest

my past life revisited today

something I’ll never let fade away

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