The Harsh Mistress

The call of the seagulls,
near the edge of the sea,
is the lure that attracts men
to their boats to test the sea. 

Waves dance a beckoning call, their waters to explore.
Therefore, men set off in their boats
to answer the wandering call.

However, to many a man
the sea maybe a mistress,
to others it is their downfall.
The sea can be a harsh mistress,
to some who come to call,
as they make time there forever,
deep in that watery bed

The storms she creates,
when angry,
has sealed many good men,
to an eternal fate.
So be warned my friends,
before you fall for the siren’s call.
The sea can be a harsh mistress.

                            

                         Worth is in who you are and what you do, not in what you look like.

These Hands.

These hands were given to me a long time ago as a gift,

To work hard and to create.

Yet, I choose to destroy.

I want you to show me...

Hating less...

"This is the body I was born with. I’m trying to accept myself and appreciate what my body can do for me. Body acceptance isn’t about loving your body. It’s about hating your body less."

Beautiful words:

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

— Walt Whitman

 

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Self Reminder:

My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect.
My health does not dictate my worthiness for respect. 
MY HEALTH DOES NOT DICTATE MY WORTHINESS FOR RESPECT. 

"When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else."
David Levithan