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To know self is to forgive self.
Release those feelings of shame, guilt, hurt, self-condemnation.

You were made perfectly imperfect.
Your task is to live YOUR life to the fullest and best imaginable for YOU.
Your situation and circumstances are not happenstance, they are real and customized just for you.
You are POWER, you possess everything you'll ever need and want.
If you are unhappy, unsatisfied, unfulfilled...
You can change it all and create and live the life you desire.

Don’t determine your self-worth and purpose by observing and competing with those around you. Their story is not yours.
Look within, you’ll find your purpose there, and only then will you be able to author the life you were destined to live.

No matter your belief, background, or situation, you are powerful, beautiful, magical.
Don’t be so hard on yourself.
You are a representation of glory in human form.

Now ease your mind and free it; rid it of all those contaminant thoughts, those things that won’t allow you to live fully.
Those things that keep you from being great, from being happy; let them go.
You’ve learned, you’re learning, you’re wiser.
It’s okay.
It’s all part of the process.

To know self is to forgive self; forgive yourself.
Love yourself.
It’s okay.
It’s gonna be okay.
-bdapoet

oh say can u see me

i wont go silently like
lambs before slaughter
nor gentle into that
good night

i won't whisper my
disdain for complicated
things devaluing the
simple life

i wont tax myself with fear
blacklisted by gossips ear
sissifying my fight for equal
human rights

for he who seeks to shame
knows not honors gain
pursuant of justice and
God’s delight

while brothers bought and sold
weep with broken souls like
wingless eagles
attempting flight

baring my soul in warrior mode
intellect and bullets unite on
congress’ bloody carpeted floor the final
end of historical strife.

by the dawn’s early light.

work 2 do

finally

he was weird and i loved him for it
bold outspoken and unapologetic and
i loved him for it
unbothered and unconsumed with the
ways and worries of the world
often enjoying anime, mozart and meek mill
and i loved him for it

we hunted through thrift stores
looking for lost treasure
a long forgotten chair or an
abandoned appliance
once we found an antiquated jewelry box
with two matching bands inside
from that moment on we knew

and i loved him for the simple
outlook he had on life and loving
it made me want to live and be more
it gave me hope and courage and
restored my faith in god and man and
i loved him for loving me enough to free me
allowing me to be me without condition

countless memorable moments
we would share contemplating
life and love and technology and african mysticism
while learning yoga, taking day trips to the beach
karaoke and eating burgers and brussels sprout my
singing off key and belly doesn't  bother him at all
he loved me for it

as fairy tales with happy endings go
we eventually said our i do’s
not at the approval of congress or christians or anyone for
church and state and salesmen were not allowed inside our home
our witnesses were a plant, some goldfish, and a puppy
their being was enough the only company we needed and
we loved them for it.

out of great tribulation