… they told me she is the odd one, different, no one understood her. Her ways were different, manners did not align, her thinking was different, actually it was and it wasn’t, she was superior in her mind, but who could accept and understand that? I was born into this perception about her, what a horrible perception! And joined them in relating to her as such. She carried the burden on her head, all around her, that she was not right, something was wrong with her. If she was wrong, then every single one of us is wrong, if she is not right, then none is right. She came as she was made and she dealt as she knew. What a wicked and horrible people, we sometimes are? Even though I appreciate it comes from a place of ignorance. We killed her, we did it, even though we did it very very slowly. We told her she was not, she did not belong, we used our mouth to tear her down, we used our energy to isolate her. It was only a matter of time before she believed our lies and dealt as one that was wrong, when all along she was right!
Life swept me into her camp, I was astonished at her beauty, her love, her childlikeness, her kindness. She was truly one in a million. But she no longer believed it, she lived as an outcast, she self destoyed, she sabotaged herself, for life had told her too often and for too long that she was not good, not loving, not caring when nothing else emanates from her being but love. She seek to find herself when she was not lost, little wonder, her whole life and aboard was topsy turvy. She was good to go, but she did not know, so she did not go. Because she didn’t look like others, she was told she did not fit (but fit where?) so she stayed back. She stayed home and died there and the world was deprived of her magnificence. I thank God, I had the opportunity to catch a glimpse and to rub mind with a beautiful mind.
What a being? What a giant that visited? What a genius? Clueless as we are, we allowed them to leave without infecting us. Other giants are coming and some are already with us, I pray we don’t treat them the same way, but sadly we already are! May the giants find the strength not to cave in.
May the giant live! May the misunderstood stand! May the good stay good. May we not look for what is not missing. May we not seek to change when no change is required. May we find the strength and fortitude to just be.
May the giant live!
Beautiful Ivory 