The dance of the Free

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Tetherless, free...dancing my clumsy waltz,
Awkward yet blissful - a dance of my own,
Unscripted, unrehearsed, unrestrained;
I never learned to dance, but I learned to be free...

You threatened me with the fall,
So I gave up my craving for the rise;
You ambushed me with the dark,
I learned to see in my flickering candlelight;

You bullied me with the void,
I learned to find music in my nothingness;
You scared me constantly with death,
So I learned to laugh at life itself!

You had the power to steal everything from me,
But you couldn't take away my dance;
Awkward yet blissful - a dance of my own,
The dance of the Free.