The Netherlands democratically puts a list of the 2000 best songs together every year around New Year’s and the biggest mystery every time is whether Bohemian Rhapsody wins again
find the schism between self-confidence and false bravado
squeeze through that unholy crack
all the doubt you’ve squirreled away, all the self-hatred you thought you’d cast out has but retreated to the great stores of your loneliness and remission
but do it
squeeze through
face the hideous truth of your pasts…the millions of pasts you’ve lived
the moments innumerable
when you shrunk away
when you hid yourself
when you ran
when you hated
you
yourself
the only one you’ve got
and when you’re there in that space
between true self-confidence, self-love and the pretension of who you say you are who you want to be
in that space where all your hatred seethes
when you’re there aswarm with the countless past demons you thought you’d vanquished with a lie
a lie of being biggger, better
a lie of uncaring, indifference
a lie of: I’m fine
when you face that horrible storm of truth
find solace
find strength
find love
in knowing you’re there at all…
in knowing how you felt
time and time and time again
of knowing you’ve lived
of knowing the storm somehow will pass
of knowing how if you summoned this much hate and this must evil in torment of YOURSELF and no one else, then you must even still be capable of change
you have changed before
when you tried to fit in
when you hid all this
when you lied so much
so too you will change again
and just imagine all the blessed bits of you you’ll shine
all the good spirits you’ll welcome into your life