We can be so cruel and harsh with each other

Words can cut sharper than a double edged sword

Life and death lies in the power of the tongue

Cycles of generational miscommunication

Cycles of pretence to please those bestowed with power over us

Cycles of suppressing our true self

Choosing to stay caterpillars when we are destined to bloom

What holds us back from being butterflies?

Fear which speaks on a larger problem

We do not know love, many of us will not truly know it in this lifetime

There is no fear in love

There is no cruelty in love

There is no possession or control over the other in love

In choosing to practise love, we speak life, we seek light, we heal our spirits together

There is no force greater than this

yet we are so easily consumed with

anger, power, lust, violence.

As a family we are divided and broken.

We let the past interfere with our present, casting a shadow to our future.

Ego blinds us to seeing the cumulative change and personal growth we make daily striving to become better.

We choose to live in a space of pain and hurt, recounting the moments that made us feel small and unworthy.

We refuse to heal ourselves because that requires effort and an active choice of change.

We refuse to choose to be happy, to heal our pain and turn it into laughter because we don't know the pitch, tone, variance or vibrancy of this laughter.

We fear the outcome believing that if we let go for one moment to truly practise love and heal some how we will get hurt and fall even deeper into the spiral of despair,

living the rest of our lives under a dark cloud.

We lack faith to believe that love is our birth right

We are afraid that in choosing love we choose a new unknown identity. We are not the same once the choice has been made.

There is no fear in love. There is only faith and hope.

I pray that you know love and if you do not get this opportunity I pray that you get a glimpse of it. You are deserving and worthy but the power lies in you.