iThanks a lot anita:) your kind words are great and uplifting, they help chase the inner bully out. i posted my “Beautiful As Dawn” poem last night and it has gotten two likes. I wrote that poem by hand in red b/c the dawn is red and red represents power and confidence which i think you have. i wrote “Beautiful As the Dawn” and “Immortality” in my pre-calc class when i had finished my work. i think i might get into the habit of posting the poem in its color font online. i am also working with a community service organizer to spread my positive poetry to places that need inspiration like homeless shelters and nursing homes. I like the fact that you mentioned the term Childhood integrity and your interpretations and readings of my poetry seem to make the poem seem more illuminated. i like the mental clarity i get after running or a meditation and it makes me think there is something deeper in all of us, an eternal soul and it is as if the heavens are radiating their light upon being helping spark my creativity, those are the moments when i truly feel alive and know that i am enough and all-intelligent, healed, whole. i have written three other poems inspired by the following songs: “Home” by Daughtry, “When I’m Gone” by Three Doors Down, “Don’t You Worry” by Swedish House Mafia, “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park, “The Pretender” by Foo Fighter and “I won’t worry my Life” by Jason Mraz. here are the three poems (Home was handwritten purple, the color of spirituality, Immortality was written in red and Embracing Divine Self was written in green, the color of healing) i had originally thought that i used color to write my words b/c i couldn’t find my pencil (i always use pencil so i can erase the mistakes), but i think there is a purpose to the colors:

Home

Staring out into the night

Stretching my arms out to the heavens

Erasing the negative parts of me

I’ve not always been the best person

But I have forgiven what I’ve done

Looking at the stars twinkling their light to guide those in the dark

I stretch my arms out and embrace the beauty of the universe

Whatever pain I let go

AS I am reborn in my soul

Whatever road I take, I’ll be okay

Forgiving my fragmented parts and embracing the light

I’m going home

To the place where I belong

To the place of divine love

Where I’ll always be enough

I hear the music of heaven within my soul

My heart beats on the path to my life’s purpose

I stretch my arms out and become a star

I let go of the physical world that holds me back

I’m not afraid to fly

To the place where I am whole

To the place where I am healed

There is no sorrow or sadness where I’ve gone

There is only joy and an encompassing eternal love

I am eternal, I am timeless

I am home where I belong

I don’t regret this life I chose for me

I’m going to the place where love and feeling good don’t cost a thing

An Awakened being filled with radiance

One with the universe

All that I’ll ever be is enough

There is no fear as my spirit soars and I truly feel alive

As I dance the beat of my soul without anything holding me back

There are no flaws

All is divine perfection

All is healed and whole

I feel all that I can be capable of being light as a feather

The world fades away and all I see is divine light.

I am home.

I am a star in the universe.

Immortality

The dawn is breaking

A new person arises

A person filled with purpose

A person of the divine

Awakened in spirit, in energy

Immersed in divine love

I have run to the farthest pastures only to be with the divine

I have come to the pastures of heaven; I have found what I’ve been searching for all along

My soul
My body
My mind

Are free

A sense of Being and Oneness

There are no limits to happiness

There is no fear and insecurity anymore

I have discovered my true essence

Part of the Divine, there is nothing holding me back

I have discovered the spirit within

Immortality

I have experienced this oneness called love and it endures wherever I go

How could I be anything less if i was made out of energy and feel the divine energy now?

Trusting the process of life

The end is only the beginning

I have nothing to lose

To divine love I was born, to divine love I return

Embracing my Divine Self

Erasing myself of all physical limitations

Start again and whatever pain I let go

Embracing the uncertainty and adventure of life

What if I’m not like the others?

What if i don’t want the world to direct my plays?

I will live my life and break free of the illusions

I don’t regret the choices I’ve made

I’m forgiving myself

Forgiving what I’ve done

So what if the critics laugh and jeer?

I am in control of my life

Embracing my divine self

Learning to fly, to embrace my soul

As long as I’m truly me, I will work on making my life the best it can be

All the negatives wash away to a blank slate

I am reborn again

Embracing my divine self

Everything that I am and everything in me knows the path to take

I won’t worry my life away

You can turn the light out, but I’m still going to shine

And I’m going to tell you why

I am a star exploding with potential lighting up the universe with my life’s purpose

Not letting anyone cage my soul from who I was meant to be

I am my divine self

And I will fly

All around me is perfection and light

As my soul is awakened to the divine in me

Forgetting the world,leaving behind fear

The pen’s in my hand, fire’s in my soul, I will write my story and I will rise to the heavens

I am one with the universe

As I embrace the divine within myself