LABELS

LABELS

One of the quickest ways to get noticed

And subsequently  labelled in society  is to be

Loud

Disruptive

Attention seeking

Challenge “authority”

Beautiful

You have nowhere to hide, and so 

You are promptly sent off to a “professional”

To be "fixed"

The labels stick
following you around your whole life...

Just like the tarred and feathered man who has been humiliated
the very fabric of his being destroyed.

Drugged, psychoanalyzed, even institutionalized

Unrecognizable

His true essence held prisoner inside.

Conversely, one of the most effective ways to get away

From this vicious cycle

Is to lay low, stay quiet, hide in plain sight

Act “normal”, smile when they say cheese

Out psyche the psychologists

They won’t even see it coming.

Everyone seems to think that being beautiful 

is the golden ticket to success

And in this superficial system it most certainly IS.

Being beautiful can indeed open doors.

 

But what about the beautiful girl who feels

Ugly

Worthless

Lost

Dumb

Undervalued

Lonely

Lacks any true intimacy

She can get away with blue murder

But who will take her seriously when she tries to explain to them
the secrets of the universe and her soul???

What she didn’t realize was, her beauty was a form of protection,

And although it got her all the WRONG kinds of attention

It hid the "INCONVENIENT", "UGLY TRUTH" inside of her

She was the vessel, who held

Those alchemical ingredients
that comprized the fabric of the stars.

Her awkward smile, 

The flinching retreats from insincere flattery
was in fact, her biggest training ground

Something she couldn’t learn any other way

Her BULLSHIT DETECTOR…

The fastest and most effective tool she had on her side 

to cut through the illusions of what real

TRUTH and BEAUTY were.

A shrewd yet gentle beauty,
who let them believe what they wanted to,

Her skin so thick

To hide her often lonely pain and despair.

Often turning inward,

Self harm and self medication her only relief,.

WHY could not any one else see what was going on?????

This may sound like an unreal story

It may even sound really sad

But what people didn’t realize was just how much this girl really saw and knew

HAD they figured it out, they would have gone about

And labelled her with every three letter acronym or disorder in the book

So in a strange twist of irony

And fate

She somehow managed to be let off the hook.

Today, if you saw her walking past you on the street
you would still see those heads turn

she still sees the bullshit and the lies

but if you are sincere,
you will see her smile

And to those who continue to try
to label her entire existence
They will now quickly realize
she has removed her veil of protection
she will face you head on
she will never scream
she will never shout
but you will be left with no doubt

You just wouldn't DARE

(c) Teresa / Divinia th September 2013
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