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If I could, I'd make it rain glitter. For when it rains glitter, everyone would be able to shine! I used to be scared of standing out. I used to hide behind the shadows of small-minded people. Sometimes, I still do and I think that is perfectly okay.
We were born buried in the dirt and swallowed are way out of it. We are filled with worms and maggots, yet branches sprout out of our hands and flowers bloom out of our eyes. We are our own freaks of nature! But as the fundamental parts of nature, our branches and chopped, and our flowers are picked. Even if they do grow back, they'll never be the same. So as our bodies grow, we lose that resemblance of the child we once were, that tree, and that flower.
Maybe change isn't all that bad? We don't have the answers to all the mysteries of our world but we do have each other. Sometimes, well mostly, I think we feel alone. Covered in shadows and placed in a dark corner. Somewhere in that dark corner, a star begins to appear. Not a flower or a tree, just a simple star. The moon begins to float near so I reach for it and swallow it. The stars become my eyes and the moon my belly. If I could plant flowers on the moon I would. But for now, I have stars for my eyes and the moon makes me awfully full.
Change does not suit me very well. Change feels like not fitting into your favorite pair of pants, change feels like the loss of a mother, change feels like that void, in the pit of my heart, getting ever so large. Change is like an empty house that was once filled with happiness and laughter. Even the moon is dull and the stars, well, the stars have blinded me. It's a glittery sensation of blindness. I don't dislike it nor do I like it but change will become our normal one day. Let us not cry but look forward to that familiar feeling.
I watch people go about their everyday lives with different facial expressions. So many people with so many feelings. I think that is something that lifts this loneliness up a bit. The person next to you probably has felt the way you feel now and maybe they still do. Even in deserts, flowers grow and even in meadows, flowers die. So if you ask me about society's standards of beauty and ugliness I would say the simplest of things, "Beauty" and "ugly" does not define a life. Beauty can kill and ugly can grow.
I believe life is quite beautiful!
For instance, I trap myself in my room to hide from this world and when I look out I see beautiful skies and in here, it's rotten. People choose ugly and unlikeable things because we feel that way about ourselves. We are too scared to step into beauty because we are afraid of what people will think. Life is cruel but it's also radiant. Life is bi-polar.
Who knew we could burn and dance at the same time? Who knew we would wish for our branches and flowers back? Who knew change was such a scary thing? We don't have the answers to everything so that's why life is unexpected. That's why we swallow the moon and have stars as eyes. We want to see what we want and we want what we cannot have. It's unfair but it is our truth. I wish the truth could be a lie but no one likes lies.
So let it rain glitter. Let us all shine for a moment or two. It could be our last but it could also be our first. Life is unexpected so grasp it by your hand and never let go. And maybe, just maybe, we can plant flowers on the moon.
-harper (a stranger on Tik Tok)
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