Woven.

And if I laid down my dreams for you
Maybe you'd be impressed?
Maybe the act of this, would speak the enormity of that which these words cannot…
But then I'd be naked, undressed
And then what?

These dreams
Are the fabric that clothe my spirit
They colour me in
To strip them away would be a sin!

I shouldn't have to compromise my truth
To please the system
To 'fit in'

We shouldn't have to shut our curtains
Gloss over our flaws
And superficially shut all of the doors
To all of the ways
Of REALLY inviting each other in…

This isn't Pleasantville
The ying comes with the yang
So please! Disregard these fictional ideals
These unrealistic expectations
They're only contributing to a dissatisfied generation

Instead…

Why not let's unpeel?
Back to the fruits of our existence
Where
Whatever we're feeling
We FEEL!

And with conviction.

To embrace all
Is to taste ALL
And to deny that which we dislike
Serves only, to fragment the whole
So let's SEE eachother
And see it ALL

And in doing so
Feel relief.

For I'd like to believe
That real love is made from a special weave
Woven from words unspoken
Rather than words said
Where we are the needles
And love is our thread.

Fluidity.

And all this time
I had ignored my own depths
Looking outside
Through different windows
And wading in the shallows
Along another's shore...

My eyes were always on the island
Until I realised I was the water.

Tall Poppy Syndrome.

You like to label me
You like to package me
Up
Tape down my optimism
My free speech
With your judgmental beliefs
Of what you think to be true

But the truth is
You're afraid of me
Because I'm different
Because in society's eyes
I'm a little unhinged

And this fear of yours
Is syringed
Introvenously
Through your snide comments to me
While you watch for me to weaken

But it won't happen.

You underestimate my silence
And still, I've not yet spoken
Nor will I bother
I'd rather save my energy for love

I realise I don't make sense to you
But I make sense to me
And so, no matter what you do
The foundation of this
Will ensure I am always free
From the likes of you
And to be as I am

And as the universe intended me to be.

And when you understand this for yourself
Understand it from your core
Then you too, can be...
And only then
Can we live in harmony.

One Choice.

I have wondered
And I have wandered
Around this mind aimlessly
A landscape of ideas
Lost
For years
Swiping at thoughts
Collecting memories that weigh me down
And draw upon my face
The paths to a frown

When all this time
The searching
Was what needed to be found

A lifetime of looking up
When all I needed
Was my two feet on the ground

One step
Two step
Let me dance with you life

That's the only question you ever asked of me

The day I was born
You said quite simply:

Will you dance?

I remember now...

And so I forget my head
And feel only, my feet
And take my lead
From the heart.