if only i know how to dance <br />then i will dance with you <br /> <br />if only i know how to sing <br />then i will sing with you <br /> <br />if only i know how to be you <br />then i will be you not just with you <br /> <br />you wish, and i may make your wish my command <br />like the genie of the three wishes <br /> <br />but my dear, i am myself all through and through <br />i dance my own dance, and i sing my own song, and i behave <br />the way i am, and want myself to be <br /> <br />i proclaim myself, my individuality, i do not wish to imitate you, <br />neither you to imitate me, <br /> <br />for if i become you and you become me, <br />half of you and half of me, looking alike in all ways, <br />a mirror image of a self to another self <br /> <br />will that not be boring? and damning? and degrading? <br />and cheap and unfashionable?<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-only-143/
