Invitation to the Dance

Oh, the Great Dance.
To which there is no invitation; to which there is no escape.
For once the Dance begins,
There is only the Dance...

Where all creatures on the great spinning globe
Are wallflowers, fragile,
Fearful, trembling at rhythms
Beyond their skill and strength, wondering,
Who will be around when the Piper is paid?
And the more heated the world,
The more heated the Dance.
The warmer the world, the wilder the Dance.
The more wild the Dance,
The more wild the world.

For once the Dance begins,
There is only the Dance...
...where Sun, Wind and Water match each other step for step, magnifying, maneuvering, caught up in a magnetic rhythm growing ever more complex and intricate as Earth herself is drawn in, grinding, rocking, squeezing, pushing, opening--letting loose the deep fires within her body flowing upward through her veins, upward to join with Sun, Wind, Water, to match them step for step...

Bit by bit, animal by animal, species by species, Rat’s logic spread.
The Great Dance!
Sweeping away all that is not true...
Sweeping away all that lies in front of it.
Loosing the deep rhythms of Truth,
Breaking down all forms not reflecting
The fearful symmetry of Truth
Unchanged, unchained...

Shocked silence gave way to waves of whispered exultation. In spite of the risks, in spite of the chance than none might look upon the bright face of Sun again, a welling YES rose in their minds and hearts. Beauty beckoned and wild thoughts of the spectacle to come electrified their souls.

There is nothing like the Dance! Nothing in the world!
YES! Only YES! The Powers must, the Powers WILL prevail!
Madame Lion lifted her great paw once and brought them all to silence.

"We understand,” she said simply.

"It is better to go wrapped in the fierce embrace of Sun and Earth than to go one by one, sick, starved, homeless, or worse, imprisoned by those who do not know our souls, much less their own. We must make our call.”

She shook her great head as if to clear it of any impediment to reason.

"Are all in agreement?” she asked.