Poetry Manifesto

How many people really know you?!

Your inner state of being,

The crux that holds you together,

The outward appearance, hiding the inner frailties forever,

The confusion within the mess that is your stress and your strain of life,

Your solid strength and your timid weakness. How many people really know these things?

Do people really know you?!

What you've experienced, your deepest sadness, your euphoric victories!

What drove you insane and back from brink of insanity again,

What surrounds your soft centred and the grit in your outward exterior,

What you see in the mirror and who looks back,

The explosion in your mind and the damage in your heart,

What really brings you peace and joy, sorrow, ecstasy and a warmth inside!

I know who I am brethren!

Do you know who you are?

If you wear a mask, ripped it off with pleasure and show the world who you truly are!

What makes your heart beat and skip,

Are you in essence good or evil?

Because for me it's clear cut!

Do not judge me sonny, by your standards!

Do not belittle me boy, with your slander,

Undermine me at your peril girl, 

Abuse and use me at your own detriment missy,

I'm nobody's puppet,

Nobody's toy,

I'm not soft clay that you can mould how you want,

Yes, I'm speaking for the many who have been hurt!

Yes, I'm angry! And I should be! Nothing wrong with that! No darkness in anger if expressed in a good and right way brothers and sisters!

I'll always be the rock,

Right at the depths of the deep,

Fore there is always only one way I aim,

I aim high!

I rise!

I float above and beyond the stars and ride the asteroid waves!

I kick star dust in the face of the bully!

I sweep them under the crust of the Earth and pat the earth firmly down!

My friends are the animals and birds, the plants and flowers and trees!

My friends are the few,

The few self aware people who shine the light of goodness and the sensitive souls, whose only fault is that sensitive and delicate nature.

Beware of the Grizzly Bear and the Harpy Eagle, the Wren and the Weasel, the Buttercup, the Dandelion and the Daisy, fore my friends are all around, 

The man and woman whose hand I grasp graciously, and open up to and tell them what's on my mind and in my heart! 

Fore they are strong and courageous to the core!

Open your windows and reveal your soul to the neighbourhood,

Let them spread their rumours, 

Let them squabble amongst themselves,

Rise above their pettiness

Above their idle gossip and chit chat,

Forget what your teachers told you,

Professors and lecturers too,

Forget vanity and arrogance,

Forget French philosophy,

Forget that nonsense Nietzsche uttered,

Remember the Forerunner,

Remember the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last,

This is what makes a person stronger - Faith, Hope and above everything on the face of the Earth and in the entire universe... It is Love!!! 

Love is what makes you strong!