.drumbeats

        i followed the drumbeats tonight

i followed the chanting, the laughing, the stamping of feet, low thumping cadence of voices

        I followed the drumbeats tonight

under the clear white stars

circle dancing, the girls round and round in a slow rhythmic shuffle -

around

shoulders forward back, forward back, boom boom forward back

around

feet stamping time with the shoulders

hunched into the dance

altogether now

forward back

side to side - the hips

forward back

the shoulders

as if they were perfect wild puppets - moving as one by invisible strings

        I followed the drumbeats tonight

boys in the center - beating furiously, crescendo of bare hands and bare feet, faster and faster, slapping the drums

little children dancing frenzied

in and out

the circle breaking and merging

screaming shouting shaking laughing dancing chanting living

        i followed the drumbeats tonight

doing a strange white amerihop jitterbug shuffle

screams of laugher

nasara dancing

missing beats and spastic shoulders

shuffle

shuffle

around

        i followed the drumbeats tonight

under the clear white stars

circle dancing, the girls round and round in a slow rhythmic shuffle -

around

shoulders forward back, forward back, boom boom forward back

around

feet stamping time with the shoulders

hunched into the dance

altogether now

forward back

side to side - the hips

forward back

the shoulders

as if we were perfect wild puppets - moving as one by invisible strings


I heard the drumbeats tonight
i thought about the drumbeats tonight
I walked towards the drumbeats tonight
i followed the drumbeats tonight
i watched the drumbeats tonight
i danced to the drumbeats tonight



free
and the beatbumpumstampslapclap of the word called  go

follow your drumbeats - I know you can hear them

free

and the beatbumpumstampslapclap of the word called  go