Out of the Mouths of Babes Video Blog Post #2 Soul Fuel
Here is your pre-Valentine’s gift from me.
All week, I will be coming ‘OUT’ with video blogs.
The first one is here listed with the other blog posts in the ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’ series.
I found this poem today,from the amazing truth telling Laura Hershey. She was a poet,writer, consultant and activist. Laura an outspoken advocate for disabled people.
She died November 26, 2010. Please go to her website to read more about her powerful stand as a woman, gifted and challenged, and celebrated.
Telling
by Laura HersheyWhat you risk telling your story:
You will bore them.
Your voice will break, your ink
spill and stain your coat.
No one will understand, their eyes
become fences.
You will park yourself forever
on the outside, your differentness once
and for all revealed, dangerous.
The names you give to yourself
will become epithets.
Your happiness will be called
bravery, denial.
Your sadness will justify their pity.
Your fear will magnify their fears.
Everything you say will prove something about
their god, or their economic system.
Your feelings, that change day
to day, kaleidoscopic,
will freeze in place,
brand you forever,
justify anything they decide to do
with you.
Those with power can afford
to tell their story
or not.
Those without power
risk everything to tell their story
and must.
Someone, somewhere
will hear your story and decide to fight,
to live and refuse compromise.
Someone else will tell
her own story,
risking everything.
xo S
February 13th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I love seeing you in live action! Yes to playing with others in this space. You are creating such a magnificent playground — all of us will be flooding your way and bringing our favorite toys to join in the fun.
February 13th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Good evening! Two thumbs up, xo Becky
February 14th, 2012 at 8:08 am
love, love , love your new videos!