Sunday, March 30, 2014

live in the sunshine.
swim in the sea.
drink the wild air.
-Emerson


I love early mornings when it feels like the rest of the world is still fast asleep.  When you're the only one who's awake and everything feels like it isn't really real and you kind of forget the problems of your day-to-day life. The sun is flooding in through the window and the leaves turn bright green in the rays, when the wind barely blows and you sip warm coffee. Rubbing sleep out of your eyes, skin still so soft and tender from sleeping. For a moment it's just you with the world and the sunrise, living in perfect harmony.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

BLIND BEAUTY IS AN EPIDEMIC TODAY


You can't believe everything you see
On TVs and movie screens
Sidewalk ads and magazines 
Everything's been photoshopped
Edited or changed
Everything's been airbrushed 
Nothing's left the same 
They've all changed their body shape
Just to please the judges

But who are they trying to please?
They’re trying to please you

Obsessing over pudges 
The muscle of your inner thigh
Dare not let them touch
The muscles in your inner soul
They don't mean that much
The makeup on your face must be
As perfect as your diamond ring
But your diamond came as a stone 
Rugged and alone
It came from the earth itself
Never meant to go

And sure it's full of beauty 
when compressed
But then it's cut and shaped and changed 
Into how you wish it be
Isn't one change just enough
To bring out your inner beauty
To the surface for all to see

Isn't this change more important
Than all of you and me?

Show the world who you are
All the beauty in thee
Show the world 
What I see 
in you and in me

You're beauty is not decided 
On your jean size or bra cup
Your beauty is not decided 
On the changes or starvations

Your beauty is decided
On your imaginative creations
On your talents, words, and actions 
On your soul, mind, and heart

Beauty is not to be seen

Beauty is to be heard
Beauty is to be felt
Beauty is to be treated in the same way
as love or charity or comfort

You feel it 
You know it
You express it

And as with all these things like beauty
The shapes and sizes are endless
Variations uncountable
Beauty is limitless
And to be unchangeable