If I could write you a song...
I would write a tune that stirs your soul and makes you remember that Beauty lives...
I would sing it to you everyday and every dark, dismal moment when the sun doesn't shine and sky is caving in...
I would compose some catchy lyrics, that ease your soul and lift your burden...
But in that long chorus would be the ones that capture your pain, reflect it back to you...like a mirror of validation to ease your troubled mind...
I would be able to belt it from the rooftops, unafraid of who might hear me sing it...
Unafraid of their judgments our criticisms, unafraid of allowing my Whole Self to present, instead of the pieces of my personality I use to make others feel comfortable...
I would make you feel it so deeply that your heart feels like it may just pound its way through your skin and charge outward into the deep, dark, wonderousness of the atmosphere....
If I could write you a song...
But I'm no songwriter. So the tune falls dead on this very page.
your life is your life
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be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
- Charles Bukowski
I wanted to say hi and let you know I love how you are keeping it real. LDS culture can be at times a bag of tricks and depending on circumstances can play a role in the depression that so many quietly hide. I see so much fun on your blog reducing the superficial. It takes courage to be that voice and you seem to have a gift toward making thoughts a party. Thank you!
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