What we wear.....

“If you want people to love you for who you are, take the mask off” 

― Martin Suarez

I watch
and
see
we 
people
in the vastness of 
diversity and creation
are so 
much 
more alike than different
We hide who we are
smother down that
individuality
bind up our gifts
and 
carry them around on
our back 
for fear of
appearing 
weird or different or
too awesome.

I stare into folks eyes
trying to figure out
and
every so often
I catch a glimmer
of the 
wonder of humanity...
see a ray of shining from
someone who stands in their own uniqueness
I love it when I do
for it 
invites
me to trust in
that thing
that IT
that created me...

Every last one of us 
does it
hides our truest of self
covers up the smile
or the warmth
wraps empathy in a blanket
continuing
to 
be a prisoner 
to the mask
we started wearing when we were oh so small
and
realized
the world expected us to be the same
or at least that is the story
we tell ourselves....

Wonder what would happen
if 
we began
just a few moments at a time
starting our day
with it all off---
do we even know how to do that anymore????
allow the light of the Divine IT
shine out from us
in the fullness
of 
who we were created to be....

Go on
just for today
don't be worrying about 
what so and so will say
how she will react
what his impression will be
....

Take off that persona
that he or she 
devil of a mask
you wear
sweat under
hide behind
and
allow
God
creative wonder
energy that flows
to shine forth from you...

Go on ...
Just be You.
Happy hump day...

The radical rambler....