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Enough For Today
By
Michael Jackson
Dance rehearsals can go on past midnight, but this time I stopped at ten. “I hope you
don’t mind,” I said, looking up into space, “but that’s enough for today.”
A voice from control room spoke, “You okay?”
”A little tired, I guess,” I said.
I slipped on a windbreaker and headed down the hall. Running footsteps came up to
me. I was pretty sure who they belonged to. “I know you too well,” she said, catching up
with me. “What’s really wrong?”
I hesitated. “Well, I don’t know how this sounds, but I saw a picture today in
the papers. A dolphin had drowned in a fishing net. From the way its body was tangled
in the lines, you could read so much agony. Its eyes were vacant, yet there was still that
smile, the one dolphins never lose, even when they died.......” My voice trailed off. She
put her hand lightly in mine. “I know, I know.”
”No, you don’t know all of it yet. It’s not just that I felt sad, or had to face the
fact that an innocent being had died. Dolphins love to dance--of all the creatures in the
sea, that’s their mark. Asking nothing from us, they cavort in the waves while we marvel.
They race ahead of ships, not to get there first but to tell us “It’s all meant to be play.
Keep to your course, but dance while you do it.
”So there I was, in the middle of rehearsal, and I thought, “They’re killing a
dance.” And then it seemed only right to stop. I can’t keep the dance from being killed,
but at least I can pause in memory, as one dancer to another. Does that make sense?”
Her eyes tender, “Sure, in its way. Probably we’ll wait years before anyone
agrees on how to solve this thing. So many interests are involved. But it’s too
frustrating waiting for improvements tomorrow. Your heart wanted to have its say
now.”
”Yes,” I said, pushing open the door for her. “I just had this feeling, and that’s
enough for today.”
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