authentic self (Remove filter)
Girl in the Mirror
Her sapphire eyes mirror a glowing
wonder, mixed with loss and longing
beneath flowing auburn curls,
aquiline nose, and mystical
flawless features–
yet she suffers
alone
Her enticing lips are sweet as cider
extracted from the choicest ruby red apples
but can change vicious &
twisted
as a witch’s brew
her perfect teeth gleam proudly
as impeccable milky pearls– sharp
as her razor wit
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 5:21 am
FEEDING THE ILLUSION
Are we being our most authentic selves and living authentic lives but only posting what we want the world to see? Using every resource to glamourise mediocrity and disguise pain? Authentic is defined as: “not false or copied; genuine; real.” And, my favorite definition, “representing one's true nature or beliefs; true to oneself or to the person." However ,these days our primary focus is on social...
Wednesday 26th February 2020 5:46 pm
Be Yourself
Deafened by definitions
About who we
Should be
Becoming blinded
By beliefs
We can't see
Consuming assumptions
Of society's strangers
Persistent peer pressure
Tries to
Rearrange us
But to yourself
You belong
You cannot
Be sold
There is
Nothing wrong
In breaking free
From the
Mold
Thursday 10th October 2019 12:54 pm
Self Certainty
Life artefacts: the attributes of our world which
make us us. Which forge our understanding of what
and who we are. These artefacts hold power for
us. They resonate, they thrum with our reason to
be. If removed, struck away: we become bereft
of direction and belonging: we lose inner
essence-purpose. Lost in the world’s melange, perhaps
we’ll never again feel that deep mea...
Sunday 3rd December 2017 12:45 am
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