Label-Free Living

Labels labels

Have you got yours?

Have you found your very own combination of words?

To make you feel special and complete

To set you apart, make you sound unique?

Have you found something to define

This mind and body that you call mine

This spirit, this soul

That is fractured not whole

Or do you realise it’s all insane?

You’ve everything to lose and nothing to gain

To put yourself in a definable box

In the hope that others will stop throwing rocks

Or you’re hoping to find others like you

Believing they will be loving, too

Yet loving people exist everywhere

Sharing a label is no guarantee they will treat you fair

Cast off these terms you sew onto your clothes,

For you are a spirit - something your heart already knows.

Do you not see the irony?

That attaching some label is now the common way to be?

Try to get yourself out of your head

And live your life from your heart instead

Approach the world with your love not fear

Dispell your belief that its not safe out here

The safety you seek is actually inside,

It’s waiting for you to find where it hides

Build up your confidence in who you actually are,

Which is not definable by a word

But by the love you impart