Slowly but certain I can feel the curtain

Enforcing this burden of a unknown person

Chipping away at this display

What to say since I’m the prey

Words lose meaning feels like I’m dreaming

My courage is leaving my body is scheming

To abandon hope I just can’t cope

With the pressures of upholding vain smoke

My legs are shaking my soul is aching

My heart feels like its breaking

Its pumping so fast this rush can’t last

This anxiety needs to be left in the past

Otherwise my mind will flake simply break

Too much at stake this can’t be all I can take

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Practised to fatigue just to intrigue

A public which was deemed out of my league

Their criticism fuelled my fire my spirit became dire

My optimism called them a liar pushed me to reach higher

Reach for the moon forget about the stars

Laugh at doom focus on my inner wars

Hope versus reality dreams versus insanity

Laughter versus agony or basically me versus me

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Every battle has been won from ridicule I didn’t run

This too shall be done … limitations there are none

As I move to the sound whispers go around

Their nature does hound they seem scorn bound

But I will overcome as I said before

I will be no pun critics will say no more

My gestures are tuned to the melody

My movements are groomed to the symphony

As I can sense them follow my every move

I bask in the rhythm as I dwell in the groove

Step shake swing fall stop and run

Hand feet romp legs this is fun

They all move accordingly

This is going perfectly

As my body has told its best prose I take up my final pose

Ready my ego to take their blows instead their applause echoes

As their praise leaves me amazed I can’t help but feel dazed

For all those who mocked me let this ovation be their answer

I am a dancer

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My heart is in my body so as it ticks so do I

Can’t shed a tear but I can make my body cry

I can scream at the sky without saying a word

In silence, I can give you more than you ever heard

I love how the air tastes when I go left and right

Love my nerves when I see that stage light

Love how they get up when they see what I can do

Just move there’s nothing to think through

I need space as a rapper needs his booth

Words can lie, dancing is the absolute truth

My sneakers can tell a story better than a book

I can inspire you all you have to do is look

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Used to be an open book where the letters seemed to bleed

In a culture where people barely read

I used to hunt for shelter in a open field

But now that I’m older certain urges yield

I now know what they see is not who I am

What they perceive as limitations is not all I can

Friends seem to look at a cracked reflection

As I used to drown myself in a search for affection

But dance taught me that all the worlds wealth

Is not a precious as a belief in myself

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There can be no mistake, one single perspective

No different interpretation, nothing selective

An absolute truth my moves are a fact

See me for what I am, never looking back