Recent Musings - Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful

 

 Your Own Kind of Beautiful

The world will say you can’t dance

You can’t write, you can’t sing,

You can’t learn, you can’t teach.

How should you respond to that kind of negativity?

Kick off your shoes, turn up the music and DANCE

Don’t’ be afraid to take a stance

If the world gets its way

We’ll all be walking around in a trance

Afraid to give our dreams a chance

Barely giving life a glance

Rhythmless victims of circumstance

The world will say your voice doesn’t count

You can’t march, you can’t yell

You can’t protest, you can’t lead

How should you respond to that kind of oppression?

Grab a megaphone and shout, “YOU ARE PSYCHOTIC”

Don’t be afraid you’ll sound too neurotic

Our words, when honored, make hearts symbiotic

To let hatred win would be catastrophic

Hate speak unchallenged is dangerously hypnotic

Rendering us speechless in a world chaotic

The world will say you’re not a looker

You’re not pretty, not handsome

You’re the wrong size, the wrong shape

How should you respond to that kind of labeling?

Dance, write, sing, learn, teach,

March, yell, protest, lead

If the world gets its way

We’ll all be walking around in a trance

Afraid to give our dreams a chance

Barely giving life a glance

Rhythmless victims of circumstance

The way to remain free

From this world’s twisted tormentors

Is to always do you

And strive to be

Your own kind of beautiful!

                                                                                                             by Mary Bridges