Keep looking at the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.
Rumi (via proustitute)
Melissa Lamberton
BROKEN EGG SUNSET
I’ve never seen the sky this color
sort of egg yolk around the edges,
but pale as milk above, until
deepening to a shade like that
of flowers.
Here, this will help, exactly
exactly like the color of the smell
of summer grass.
Not daytime green, when gnats
are as breathable as air, though more often
noticed—no, like this grass
beneath me, all shadow
scent and sound.
Lying here, the world is tipping
into night
in that gentle mess above me/below me
I’m waiting for first star.
The velcro earth catches me
with grassy barbs, but in a moment,
in a moment
the curving bowl of dusk
will slip, and tumble, and pour
upon me the omelet of a
dying day, minus the red
chili pepper sun.
And see how the flesh grows back
across a wound, with a great vehemence,
more strong
than the simple, untested surface before.
Jane Hirshfield, from “For What Binds Us” (via proustitute)
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1965)
(Source: deus-e-x-machina, via vintageanchor)
“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
…And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think ‘oh, I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly’, don’t you know, that’s not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn’t turn around shit.
When you don’t have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of REVOLUTION and our revolution is LONG overdue.”
― Margaret Cho