When dancing with Crocodiles
beware their sharp and deadly teeth,
like malicious and ignorant gossips
spreading lies like viral news,
ever intent to bite you hard
whatever you might say or do.
When dancing with Crocodiles
watch your steps where they wish to lead
hoping you’ll fall and bleed
to feed their perverse appetites.
Move in awareness with the flow
of forces stronger than you know
who prey that you will die,
a weakened, willing sacrifice.
When dancing with Crocodiles
tune in to their thoughts- strange,
indifferent, defiant of any change
that weakens their hold on power
to dominate their world of fear.
(This is a dance of life and death.
Use your instincts and insight to understand
this hostile world that they command.
If you thought they could ever love you,
it would soon become quite clear
their nature twists and rolls with wild control.
At anything appearing weak,
in many a tale, their tails will strike
what they don’t understand.)
When dancing with Crocodiles,
your strategy may even be wise
to project your own disguise,
dancing as one of them and
using the powers of mind
until they give you no mind
as you pass to the other side.
When dancing with Crocodiles
like ancient Initiates of long ago,
you must surrender, let go, all fears
to move through and understand them
in ways that will not harm,
even surrendering to death if you must.
Your Spirit is ever Eternal.
The Crocodile Dance will end.
In Life’s Process of Evolution,
in Revolution and Extinction of Species,
Life’s Process is Constant, Continual Change.
November 29, 2021- Shelley Wilson
Flowerpoet 