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Everything in this world
Is designed to crush you
You know, the way your friend
Suggests a Botox clinic to you
When she sees your perfect skin
Or the way the magazines
Show skinny women on the cover
Who starve themselves for fame
What about the billboards
Presenting woman wearing Gucci
Forgetting clothes have a function
And those life coaches
Trying to coach you away from the life you have
Towards the life you think you need to be happy
Where the posts on social media
Chip away at your self esteem
With each additional selfie posted
And where your parents
Suggest that you can ‘lose weight if you really try’
As you devour a cupcake
Those movies
That exhibit
Perfectly imperfect love lives
And museums
Filled with art from human beings who knew
Exactly how their legacy would be remembered
Workplaces
That honor employee of the month
Not months of devotion and dedication
And homes that encourage
Good grades and accolades
Not moral compasses and nice gestures
Guys who force you
To measure your worth
On the extent on their own wounding
And women who show you
That even when you are vulnerable
You must suffer more
Governments
That work towards their own agendas
Whilst nations dies with starvation
Natural disasters
That remind us
How fragile we truly are
And man-made disasters
That remind us
How ignorant we truly are
Beautiful yet dark
Versions of ourselves
That society forces us to hide
And ugly yet light
Versions of ourselves
That society labels as success
Crushed
And then
What about
There?
In that world?
Everything in that world
Is designed to honor you
You know
The way your eyelashes grow
Just to protect your all seeing eyes
Or the flow
Of water through the human body
To purify
The way your fingernails
Help you to cut through
All the distractions in your path
And what about the fact that your food
Is digested immediately
From the moment it merges with saliva
Or the motion of your
Walking legs
Your feet graceful on this earth for every step forward
And of course
Your brain
Every synapse working to create a magical next thought
And your love
Experiences so profound
That your heart pounds with joy
And the movement of your body
With every beat
Which makes you dance
You know the meditative moment
That enables your soul
To feel ecstasy and eternity
And
Of course
The breath
Most importantly
The breath
Keeping you alive
With every. Single. Inhale.
That’s the world we should live in
That’s the world we should love in
The world deigned
To honor you
And every divine aspect of your being