3A fast paced ecstasy
Your blood boiling beyond comprehension
Dizzying, intoxicating, addictive
Your body is moving in ways that seem impossible
Vaulting into the air, tightening every muscle, waiting for the impact
Your arms flung wide open, slowly sinking into yourself as the world becomes a blur
You think you're in control? Dream on
The music controls your every movement,
It controls each breath that leaves and enters your body, it controls everything.
Steel blades slicing through ice like a warrior's sword overpowering and devastating
Ribbons of words and sounds interlocking around you, pulling you into their rhythmic depths.
You watch as other do the same around you
And then you realize,
It's all just a figure skater's rhapsody
You feel lost
In spite of that you feel found
The icy temperature chills you to the bare bone
Yet you skate on, in nothing but a tank-top, nylon pans and a tights
It worth it, it's all worth it
To hear to music pulsing in your anima
To move effortlessly on frozen glass
To be a dancer, a gymnast, a contortionist and an artist, all at the same time
It's worth the frozen fingers, the wet clothes, the jagged bits of ice, the impact of failure
No price is to high to pay for the ability fling yourself in the air off a steel blade to take wing for
just a perilous moment then come crashing back down to earth and hold your head high
To proclaim to the world that you are invincible, indestructible
For the pleasure of turning the world into a senseless whirlpool, to make your own head spin
There is no true worth, it is priceless.
It's all just a figure skater's rhapsody
Do not underestimate a skater's power
We are not mere boy and girls spinning around like wind-up toys
We are athletes,
We are a driving force
We are the champions of the ice, everlasting, forever in perpetual motion
When we close our eyes
We do not see the inside of our eyelids
We see the pulse and electric waves of the music around us
Guiding us through a series of coordinated movements
We are figure skaters, nothing more, nothing less, we just exist
In a Figure Skater's Rhapsody