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
Copyright © Christopher Stones | Year Posted 2012
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