March 6, 2019

Beginnings

looking in the mirror

anticipating the known face,

a redundancy of vision,

but incomplete

we assume that the act

of seeing is seeing 

oneself as you are,

a physical presence

just as others appear

in your sensory vision

this reflection is you,

you remember the face

and your eyes questioning, 

but not seeing your truth,

this is you and how

you should be, stop doubting,

the demands of society,

this illusion is becoming

a safety net for your deep

seeded fear of change, 

your desire for a stability of

your physical purpose

a permanent anticipation

of self, a conditioning

of your intellect to assume

what is present and to discard

what is not, don’t be fooled

by your outer reflection

it is a facade without 

truth, it will age and deteriorate

before your eyes, accepting

its final breaths with despair

inside you is your realm to 

to inhabit and explore,

beginning to know your true self 

without the makeup of personality, 

condemned to be what others thought 

you should become in your physical

presence, 

we see and believe the facades 

created through an others labeling 

demands for you to follow the crowd

but this tag is their purpose

externalized not yours, it is 

a plaster cast over your uniqueness 

of vision that will change your

relationship with the outer world 

without it becoming your intuitive 

natural palette for creation  

you will need strength of character, 

your personal representation of

yourself objectified not in the flesh

but in artistic expression

what is greater the blindness of self

without inner vision or the apparent

realness of a created universe you

are not part of? where is your strength 

of purpose when you realize your

inner self was being used by a 

suffocating collar of conformity to 

someone else’s perceptions of what 

ideas and behaviors will be tolerated, 

an economic system with herded ideas 

ingrained in minds without independent 

thoughts of their true nature, and a vision 

of who they want to become

explore your inner world, you have

a talent that needs expressing, use

your intuition to dig deeper under the 

classifying words that are limiting your

personal uniqueness, the constraints 

you were born into and told this is your 

future with roadblocks already set up 

in cozy relationships with the minds of avarice 

and greed to control the path you 

choose and when you hear “there is no 

future for your kind,” don’t fall for that 

human trait of ego’s demeaning hostility 

toward powerful change, express yourself

in your own unique way, don’t listen to

the herded minds that have given up

on expressing their unique insights, 

give yourself that added push to experience 

your inner truth, the truth that was 

always present but you couldn’t focus 

your energy to find it find until now, 

stand tall and listen to your internal voice 

getting excited that you have found each other 

so grow and blossom into your true self, 

your natural gifts beginning to fight 

to be seen and heard.