Step Five: Calling the Dance

International Modern Square Dance Symbol

When secrets are debilitating, but

confession is counter-intuitive,

what is a soul to do?

Step, glide, do-si-do, swing your partner—can’t

figure it out alone but figure skate

across the thinnest ice.

Partnered with truth or God or whatever—

you call it—now is mine to call the tune

truth or consequences.

The question is which is to be master

that’s all as Humpty Dumpty told Alice

in Through the Looking Glass.

Look at my face and touch my inner guide

who wants authority (beyond all else)

to be true to myself

and call out: Come Witness!  the decision

to tell my story and to hear it, too—

so to heal and renew.

Inspired by morning meditation with Fr. Richard Rohr: Step Five

Part of the series Oh, Ye of Little Faith*

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© 2016 Susan L. Chast