Keep Dancing

Photo by sina rezakhani / Unsplash

Twist, jerk, spin, dip

Swing those hips

Rock your chest

Tick tock, leave em distressed

Hop, jiggle, skip

Shake your shoulder don't quit

In your lovely dress

Slide and jive, sweetie finesse

Step and kick

Don't mind no one, do it

Don't give 'em time to process

Move around like you've been possessed

This is your jam, this is a hit

Lemme see your splits

Shimmy away the stress

You bring the heat

You bring the zest

With you doing your thing it's lit

Zero to one hundred real quick

Clap and click

Boogie and bounce

Posing and prancing

Please please

Please if you can

Keep dancing

Image Description

A close up of a red tube shaped JBL speakers on a dark wooden shelf.

I wrote this poem 6 years ago inspired by a friend that never hesitated to dance and really use their body to express themselves. I was inspired by the freeness of their movements how they reacted to music so organically. I modified the poem for my shielding siblings, my disabled siblings and immunocompromised siblings to encourage them to keep dancing if they have the ability to.