No Mere Animal

Your skin, it breathes Your hair, it speaks, Your mouth it loves. You speak gods into the minds of men and your silence shakes the Earth that supports you Its hard to feel awesome, when pain lingers When memories haunt and whispers taunt When you scream into vast nothing as everything suppresses and depresses But oh human you are so much greater You are no mere animal No, you are a god among goddesses, a goddess among gods, a creator of beauty,a raging force of history a living, breathing anomaly of gargantuan proportions You can forgive and forget and recollect You can make hate and violence recede with mere tongue rolls and footsteps You can water peace in wildfires of despair and ovens of anguish So Stand up, dry those tears Lift your head without fear Say it without contrition, without regret and remorse Loud and clear so that the world trembles and every part of your body is shocked and fortified by hearing these words: I am awesome