Dancing

Life is about dancing and hiking and laughing and singing

Not about smoking and drinking and pretending and freaking

It’s about dreaming and sleeping and joking and being

It’s not about makeup and snapchat and instagram photos

It’s about the times the flash of the camera goes

Off and captures a real smile

Not the one you flash because you think it’s in style

Life is about philosophical walks and fire talks

About pushing and growing and showing

Yourself what you can do

Not about he said, she said boo hoo hoo

It’s about the just being happy just for you

It’s not about the action with the hidden meaning

It’s the being happy just for being

It’s not about guys and supposed accomplishments

It’s about tries and not being perfect yet

It’s the scintillating “why” that you’re not sure of yet

It’s the dancing and the joy derived

It’s the not minding all the eyes

It’s the knowledge that it will be just fine

And fun is fun at any time

It’s the blisters and the sillies and the growing pains

It’s the wonderful knowing of not knowing things 

It’s about putting your phone down and going off the grid

It’s about learning and finding and exploring all of it

It’s engrossing yourself in the little hobbies

In the gritty and silly little intricacies

It’s about the people that you go through it with

The people that when you ground down you can construe it with

It’s about the sunsets and the quiet moments of plain joy

Not the cheap dopamine you get from some boy

It’s about discovery and hope and the lack of both

It’s about hindsight and gratitude that it worked out just so

It’s about the fear and places and new faces you’ll meet

It’s about that one sort of stranger that you always greet

It’s about giving endlessly even if you don’t know how

About filling your heart

And about pouring it out

It’s about the faces that stick like glue

And the interesting things only to be said about you

It’s about turning your life into stories

Not the crazy and unhinged ones, they can get quite boring

But the brave and the real ones and the all in my feels ones

The ones that only you can share

Because your many contradictory layers

are what make you worth investing in

No one likes hollow things

So fill yourself full

Full of dancing and music and sunlight and people

Full of joking and learning and growing for real

Fill yourself full

Of the real thing

Of authenticity and true belonging

Of joy and heartfelt new beginnings

Fill yourself full even if you don’t know how

Eventually you’ll figure out what you don’t know now