Above All

Above all

You must remember to never attempt the squishing of your perfect bones into the mold of ‘normal’

For everything that is unique about your multifaceted surface is what makes you beautiful

Every scar, raised slightly higher than average skin

Every quirk, every time you move your fingers in anothers because that’s just the way you like it

Every step you take, avoiding misshapen cracks

All of these things add up to the brightness in your eyes, the realness of you

Above all

You must remember that you are pursuing something challenging

Not the easy way out you

Are chasing uniqueness and that’s what makes life beautiful

You are holding firm and standing your ground in the chaos of people rushing around you

Sometimes

One of them stops

Asks you why you’re standing there, writing poetry and travelling the world and you tell them

It is because there is so much I need to see

There is so much I need to experience

I want to soak up life like your dirty dishtowel and I want to relish in it

I want to feel all of her hills and valleys and I want to explore the subtlest of her scars

I need to live

Before I am ready to determine the rest of my life