Friday, May 18, 2012

Last Dance

ALOHA, Donna Summer


Upside Down by Donna Summer on Grooveshark


 It was a time,
what a time it was;
New Liberation
and no AIDS yet,
or even GRID.






Dancing was freedom
Dancing was who we were,
what we were about.
Night after night,
every night
of the week.
The "General Public"
knew nothing of it!











 It was a secret,
on the back streets.
There was
NO RAINBOW FLAG
as yet.

But there was 
DANCING.

Hip people
can roll their eyes,
but back then,
before John Travolta
or the BEE GEES
heard the beat,
it was
ours.

The "Club Kids"
and the "Rave Kids"
didn't
invent
ecstatic dancing.


We didn't invent it either,
but we 
re-discovered
and lived it!


It goes back
to the beginning.











Every Gay Bar
in the world
wrapped up the night
with Donna Summer's
"Last Dance."

I'm sure many still do.
They will tonight
for sure.


Tonight
in Heaven
a LOT of people
dear to me
who died TOO young
are dancing their
 ASSES OFF!

Get me a drink friends,
cause I'm gonna rip it up
when I get there!
Last Dance (Long Version) by Donna Summer on Grooveshark


Thanks for stopping by 
the wake

YOU are my friend
and YOU
are 
APPRECIATED! 

Fondly, cloudia