We Are

they took it all
the ones with their faces everywhere
they took the magazine cover and they took
his home-screen and they
thought they took over everything.
All the other people in line were staring at her Vogue perfect face
but,
I'm too busy thinking about you
pray-thinking
about the way You pick me up the way You
say you've loved me forever and the way you
will love me always
we are the ones who forget it
i forget that You don't make things broken
You make fixing things
beautiful things
you make people and
they call you Creator.

I've tried that,
tried creating with my fingers on the keys and my foot on the pedal
and my heart somewhere up close to You
and my fingertips are telling you
thank you for grand pianos
my fingertips are hugging you so hard
on those keys that
perfection is closer to these sounds coming from my heart than
her lungs are to oxygen
we're all a part of this air of this something
You tell me we're a part of You
a part of together
parts that don't break
parts that you made perfect
but we forget sometimes.

Heaven made us right
Hurt made us strong
I'm making rhythm the way that she makes pavement fly beneath her feet The way that
you love
The way his hands make pictures
The way her voice believes, and believes in,
We are the scarred
The scared
The broken-burning-angry
You made perfect
souls so
Thank You.

I don't stare for beauty I search for your perfection
home-made
in a keyboard
in smiles with crooked teeth
the foot of this ADHD kid tapping time
for hopes that grow kindness
in flaws making us real
for details
working bodies
love

I'm thanking humanity for the broken ones
that give dreams and hope
she calls retouch perfect, well

we've got hearts not power cords
my memory card doesn't have a limit
we're alive
and that Vogue cover is not
these shoes never will be
these piano keys are breathing through my lungs not their own
breathing my life
because flawless is a state of being
a human condition
a side-effect of souls
and heartbeats.
Let's get used to imperfection
because we do it perfectly.
we are humanity
we are beauty
we are soul.
let's just
let ourselves
Be.