Yoga Teacher

My dad never taught me to do a headstand
You just wouldn't get it
Maybe I need a stranger looking at me to be able to fall asleep
To keep guard, kinda

Don't know what that shit is he's burning but it smells like home
Or church
We bow, i lurch forwards
Off balance or recentering

I don't have any of those baggy pants
But he still loves me i'm sure of it
Catch his eye
My friends joke that i've come here just to meet someone
And i deny it lyingly
On this musty borrowed PE foam mat
I'm a downward facing class traitor

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

Try to lose yourself, he says
Too late mate i'm adrift
Spine lengthened and a tense midriff

I wonder if he has children and if he'd cradle me
He probably thinks it's bad for the planet and i sort of agree
At least that's what i want him to think

Lotus position on the count of four
Forehead on the floor
Surprisingly comfortable
Accidentally make eye contact with
A girl i've seen before
She lives one street over
Well travelled
Her own mat and a tattoo of a compass on her ankle
I'm out here in the east shaking like a leaf
And i wonder if he can tell

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

But he's my yoga teacher
Release
He's my yoga teacher
Breathe in
Hold, release

There's a bit where we all just lie down
My favourite bit, down here on the ground
And he moves through us
You're never quite sure where he is
And if he picks you he massages your temples
His fingers move in tiny circles
And I realise these five pound lessons won't fix me
Because this is about letting go
And even here
Vinyasa flow
I'm obsessed with being chosen
And i've still got one eye open