You cannot change other people.
Regardless, it's rude to try.

Would you really want that kind of control, anyway?
To castrate the potential of a Mind you do not understand?

Maybe you should free your Mind, instead.

We were given but a divine inkling
of what lies beyond mystery
so that our minds might imagine
what only our hearts know for sure.

Is it my country,
That makes me feel I must scream,
Out my uniqueness?
My ISFP personality,
My adolescence,
Which was like a tightly closed bud?
Is it you,
Who always seems to be judging me?
Forcing me into a mold,
Once again deriding my happy self discoveries,
Which I secretly hang,
Like ornaments on my arm,
To set me apart.
Why,
Do I so often fight against,
You?
Your life doesn't look full of holes,
More like an old, musty diary,
That needs new entries.
While you were sleeping,
Before you could wake to prepare,
I grew up,
And your words,
Are not so heavy,
Cannot keep my head down.
My stem shoots upward,
In my mind it is quickly catching up to yours,
Climbing different walls,
Producing different roses,
Gathering strength from heady fountains,
From which you never drank,
Stop,
Telling me,
What I should and should not do,
So much.
Learn,
To find excitement,
In my life as it is,
What I want it to become.
Dream with me,
And no longer pull me back to earth.
I need you,
To tell me,
I can Be,
A mermaid,
A queen,
What it is that I desire,
To Dream.
I believe,
Old, musty diary,
That you forgot how,
And are only now remembering.
Do not be afraid,
For it is joy,
To conquer fear,
And life,
Is understanding,
The beauty of your own soul.
God is not the god of static things,
He Dreams.

Like liquid gold and diamonds,
Raining pearls and sterling,
Was the holy blood, You let
Fall,
A Perfect Prince, destroyed,
Laid upon cold stone,
To not just save, but masterly contour,
us,
We must be worth something,
Now, each shining nugget is placed,
Upon the one before,
And rising, with our Keystone
We are finished, and just begun.

I’m not saying I own no diamonds,
I’m not saying I have no gold,
I just don’t think I have that beauty,
The kind that you can hold,
I’m not the stuff of legends,
My treasure’s not in bling,
The words I say are all a wreck,
I’m not worthy of a King,
But why I know You’re beautiful,
Why I’ve heard You sing,  
Is because You still accept me,
In spite of everything.

How fragile we are;
how near the edge we get,
yet so unaware,
even in those moments
of stillness when we
sit and stare.

The show goes on,
the circus excites;
the long days,
the fun nights;
the pushing things
to the limit;
the share of the show,
the touch of the thrill;
the end is just out there,
a feel away,
a mere just out
of reach place
staring in the face.

How fragile
we've become
from the strong
we thought we were,
from the invincible
we pretended.

Soon or later
the close
of the game
and all 's packed up;
all's finally ended.

I at birth,
was like a lump of ambiguous carbon,
inside there lay a code,
for building a beautiful person,
but that was just the plans,
they didn’t have to be followed,
pick and choose,
add your poison,
A thoughtless word,
here and there,
will change countless Directions,
But,
Diamonds,
began to appear,
for what is Life,
on earth,
or really,
Time?
Pressure,
added to Love,
quickly equals beauty,
and those rules they didn’t obey,
the mistakes you made,
even They,
are used,
to add more pressure,
and uncover Love,
though the pain here,
Must be increased,
my Melody,
clarifies in Hardship,
and my hands fill,
with the sparkling Glory

My life crumbles from without,
So many things I knew, now shadows gray to me,
So many things once strong and good, deadly poison now to be,
Mortar as sand, and not a brick to see.
I was planted strong, with the roots of righteous tree,
But my branches have grown sick, and birds do weep around my knees.
I must remain strong, in my furthest core,
For within me flows living water, healing evermore,
My walls did crumble, my house did shake,
But my Foundation is as firm as ever, for my own life I did not make,
And no efforts from an evil, could my life, from Him take.  
No matter how bad the quake.