Flaw-LESs ImAgEs
I am not the average girl from your video
And I ain't built like a supermodel
But I learned to love myself unconditionally
Because I am a queen
I am not the average girl from your video
My worth is not determined by the price of my clothes
No matter what I am wearing I will always be
India.Arie
For as Long as I could remember I have seen brown in three ways: Not me
Not good enough, Who am I to do that
Mentally flawed by design putting you before me is how I learned to be
Sitting here and being seen and never heard concealing the change that I am
To bring about Always sitting in doubt
Praying for strength fleeing from the challenge, yet I am never one to quit
Even when I am silent Sounds like a paradox that
Hits hard like rocks against my conscience
Struggling daily from within trying to fight a battle that I seemingly can NOT
Win
Steadily placing on foot in front of the other blindly searching in the dark
For a switch that will turn this shit off, turn off my insecurities that blind me
From seeing my soul
Holding on to that trash of yesterday praying that it turns into gold No maybe
Silver that yellow crap does not count much these days
Will I ever come to terms with MY value or will I continue to let you knick pick
At the things that don't make me YOU
In Lure of the absence of love, I knew not who I was becoming,
However once I began to open up to me
Loving me became easy
And in loving me my reasons for breathing changed, the sun
Took note of a brighter star moonlighting in the distance
I grew silent steadily growing in confidence I begun the journey into hearing
The voice from within
Killing the noise that damned my win Victory is within my reach
Those pieces of my past are a must
What graces your eyes may seem flawed
And damaged which is just fine by me
But underneath this frame is a stunning piece of
Crystal that is far more precious Then rubies
More expensive then topaz or diamonds earthed as worldly treasures
My mind may be damaged from the brokenness of yesterday, but that doesn't
Diminish the fact that I have grown into a precious artifact
Tried, refined, sifted through, fired once again and let the process begin again
Until I have been refined into that precious metal However my worth is more then
That of gold or silver pieces because I have hidden sealed a way in the night
My mystery and yet
I still fight like a lion seeking its prey
I've redefined these blood-red images of pain
To get to the best part of this story
Finding Him that leads to the best victories and glories
No longer will these pages of hurt be categorized as ruin that project their
Way from their box to the center of your attention
These past images and memories are just that the Past
Time out for silence let my Thoughts speak
At day's end there is work to be carried out and not by the hands of Weak
Men
For I thought I was alone However I was not nor had I tread this path in
Vain it was a lesson to reveal the truth in this matter Fear is the constant
Flaw that screamed and yelled bitch you can NOT do any of this at all
So scatter
SILENCE and let ME speak you hold no power over me
It's time out for this FLAWED logic and that can of
Pure Bullshit for here I stood and now I stand to say that
Today is the day that I live for me and MY standards
And not by flawed fears' sake
I am not this hair nor Am I this skin what I am
Is the revived soul
That lives within