I want to dance until
my feet go sore
my anklets break free
and I faint on the floor.
I want to sing until
I lose all my senses
my lungs tear apart
and my larynx comes to
a screeching halt.
I want to laugh until
tears pour out my eyes
the darkness around me
gets dissolved in my
laughter's floodlights
and all the existing walls
shatter and break
by the sound of my guffaw.
I want to be like that
singing dancing laughing, mad woman
whom we like to stop and watch,
shake our heads in disapproval
and then secretly think –
