Beating Your Drum

Be yourself, good and bad Express your pain, sing your songs Open up to the world around you Dance in the light, lurk in the shadows Run in the forest and swagger through the city streets Seek eternal love, turn your back on others Be notorious, draw attention to yourself Be silent and watch people as they do their silly people things Write and write and write then burn it all. After that write some more and share it with everyone Travel to places you’ve never been Make new friends in the places you’ve seen all your life Question everything even when you’re told not to. What do they know anyway? No one has all the answers, not even half Paint a picture of a mundane scene and insert your own beauty Create past the point of boredom. Create past the point of criticism Laugh in the face of naysayers. Show them what courage is. Cry when it feels right, trust me you’ll know Love like there is no tomorrow because you never know when their won’t be