BURN (Wattys2015?)

show me yours and i'll show you mine

"It's like this," she says

and shows me

but i can't move like her

she moves effortlessly and gracefully

and it looks so fragile

like a single feather

could knock everything off balance

but i know she's strong

and a single feather

would never be fast enough

to catch her

i laugh

because i can't do it

i can't dance the way she does

"I'll show you how I was taught," I say

and i show her

how they taught me to dance

(although we were taught for entirely different reasons

but i suppose both are meant to entertain)

and she tries it

but can't seem to move her hips

in the right way

"you make it look so easy," she says, frustrated

"and you make it look so hard," i tease, smiling

we give up on learning each other's dances

but at least we can say we tried

and although we both dance so differently

we managed to find a dance

that we could both do

so well