And I notice how much of the globe is water More Water than Earth Much more Water than Earth than I had realized And now I see that the oceans are agitated Their waves are high Water is moving! She is dancing with excitement! For Water will be the first to be set free And Water joyfully leaps about The middles of the ocean especially are cheerful And are allowed to abandon themselves to their joy and to their dance And I see that this has a ripple effect As the movement within the center of the oceans Ripples outwards and to a lesser degree reaches the ocean shores But it is not frightening No, not at all In fact, many are thrilled by the weather I see young men out with their surfboards Joyfully playing in these waves But now the waters from the very deep of the ocean are beginning to join in They too participate in their newfound freedom of movement They too participate in their dance of liberty And as the waters of the ocean deep dance The ocean itself seems to rise And now it would seem that the ocean center The whole ocean center from top to bottom and from bottom to top Is dancing as one Its self-consciousness is evident As in unity, it performs its dance And again the ripple effect takes place But now the waves are much higher than before Water reaches the shore with much more exuberance With joyful exuberance she reaches and greets the land Almost as if calling the land to join with her in her playful dance And now it is too dangerous for surfing For the waves are much too high And all the houses and other structures on the shorelines Are swallowed up by the ocean’s embrace And while Earth does not respond to the ocean’s call to join in her dance The air above the ocean does Air hears the ocean’s call And responds Air responds Air responds Air responds And begins to move Begins her own dance And Air’s dance is not quite as exuberant as Water’s For it is not yet Air’s time But Air is moving and joyfully so Air receives a taste of her upcoming freedom and is intoxicated by it And yes responds to Water’s dance Like a slower partner, she responds And now Air too can be seen to have consciousness As she moves in concert Her choreography beautiful to behold And the Air that has taken movement is above the ocean And so does not affect man immediately For man lives on the Land But again a ripple affect takes place As the outward edges of the Ocean’s Air also begin to move And at first man finds this delightful Ah, the fresh salty breeze of the ocean! Yes, this is fresh, crisp, invigorating But slowly, less so than the Ocean Air also intensifies her dance And the ripple effect intensifies accordingly And man becomes a little nervous That’s enough now. Calm down now But Air does not calm down She has tasted of freedom and there is no turning back No, there is no turning back And now Land receives the nod Yes now it is Land’s turn to receive his freedom And he too begins to move He too begins to dance And he revels in his freedom He who had been the most tightly bound Dances with the most fierceness Erupting abruptly and with violent force And all on the land that dances are tossed about this way and that No matter Land revels in his new-found freedom And more and more spots of land join in the dance And yes, they had all been tightly bound Held immobile for centuries And there is much pent-up energy And when this energy is released The display of it is awesome to behold! Who knew Earth had such power! Such magnificence! Such glory! And now the 3 elements are each dancing Water, Air, and Earth And they are each performing their own dance For their needs are different And they have much pent-up need yet to fulfill It will be a while longer before the elements dance as one That will come That will come And Fire is watching the action Fire who has been the most free of all the elements Watches in amusement and in delight for his brethren It is about time they partook of their freedom! And Fire can’t help himself And yes, here and there, Fire also joins in the celebration For he would celebrate with his siblings And Fire breaks out in spots all over the globe For seemingly no reason at all Fire breaks out here; Fire breaks out there It breaks out in deserted areas; it breaks out in populated cities Fire is not concerned about what lies on Earth’s surface He is joining in the dance He is joining in the dance And now it seems as though the whole globe is dancing Each of the elements moving in joy and in freedom And yes, each to its own particular song And the elements are happy And the globe too is happy For she senses her elements’ joy And rejoices for them For they had been held bound for a long time Too long a time Way too long a time And the globe is happy for her elements And does nothing to restrain them No she does not The globe herself does not yet participate in the dance For she has not yet received the nod But she knows she will She knows she will And holds herself in patience Her freedom will come Her freedom will come In the meantime the globe witnesses in maternal joy The dance and the freedom and the exuberance of her children Yes, her children – the elements Unfortunately the humans and the animals are not at all pleased With this turn of events And they scramble this way and that way To avoid this dance To mitigate the effects of the dance First upon their way of life And then upon their very lives For now it is not only the structures and the infrastructure that are battered By the elements’ dance But human and animal life too is being destroyed as well But the globe is seemingly indifferent She has served humanity long enough She has served silently long enough She has served without recognition; without recompense long enough No, the globe is indifferent And does nothing to hold the elements back Let them dance as they will Let them revel in their freedom as they will The globe is happy for her children She is delighted to see them finally, FINALLY! Set free And the globe herself bides her time She knows her time will come And she waits patiently Patiently for the nod she waits