my cause

for years i have wanted to reach to the stars and scream aloud my feelings of love of hate of peace of rage
thinking dont be afraid be brave. cry and laugh aloud until you cant cry and laugh anymore.
dont sit still, MOVE! move until you collapse in exhaustion.

but i was afraid. afraid of rejection and, being scorned for what i knew i really was,
on the inside. deep frozen in fear without a cause. if i said anything i would be torn to shreds by the public.
and then where would i be? dead or alone again so what difference would it have made me?

i thought my voice was poetic in nature, but when i tried to write down my words
they wouldnt flow, until i got angry with no place to go. most of the people where i come from
write rhymes and prose and pose for pretty pictures. i am not understood by those who think they know me
they say my soul is of another place in time or country. i dont know.

what i do know, is that there has to be someone else just like me somewhere in another place or city
who doesnt fit in, with no voice and a silent heart frozen in fear. wanting to scream to sky that they are alive
and have something important to say.

after reading after watching after seeing poetry in voice in dance in color online
i became inspired and fired up to say whats inside me dying to get out
my life beats to its own drum it sings its own song it moves to its own dance trying to break free and its beautiful.

dont be the one like i have done and sit and say nothing.
take a picture, paint a painting. write a book. let people know about your thoughts
let them know your outlook. give them a view they might not have seen. they are alone
much like me watching, seeing and reading.
it isnt what you risk for yourself that matters. it is about inspiring others
to create and speak to a life otherwise shattered.

a cause worth speaking loud and clear for, the inspiration of another heart, another soul.