On this day back in 2015, one of my all time favorite bands released this song with their album, “Threat To Survival”. With that, and in continued honor of my birthday yesterday, let me tell you a little story about how I did not become a threat to my own survival, but rather, the very dangerous champion of it …

Once upon a time, there was a girl who had somehow always known that although she could have leveled everything and everyone in her path, she just leveled herself instead.

But then …

… with God not just as her witness, but as well, right by her side, the sleeper cell who’d been trapped inside her tired but still beating heart fighting demons and dragons in the dark WOKE UP! You see, she had finally risen to defend her own occasion, the silent and voiceless damnation of her light-filled soul no longer. So, with sword in hand, and a crown on her head, she’d be the weapon of her own mass destruction no longer. She’s kicked down the barricade, stopped being afraid to change, pushed against the current, and found that crystal ball in the hands of all the strangers who had once been gazing back at her in the mirror. She was a highly decorated veteran of her own war, and weapon of mass destruction to the darkness that lurks within humanity.

By the way? “She” is ME! I guess I have always known that I was a danger to society, but the stronger I’ve become and the further I’ve gotten down this road, the louder I sing this BATTLE CRY out loud to myself every day …

DANGEROUS

I could stand behind my barricade … do what I’m told and be afraid to change … while isolated by the mainstream … with the current up against me. Well, maybe if my arms were ten feet tall, I could finally reach that crystal ball. ‘Cause I still find inside there’s something braver … and I won’t be the silent damnation … I will never be voiceless … my weapon of choice is I’d rather be dangerous! I won’t be left defenseless. As God as my witness, I’d rather be dangerous! I’m not making conversation, but I’ll state my observations. Well, I could buy my faith like a plot in the ground, but I was never lost and I never had a doubt. ‘Cause I still find … it’s not my imagination … and I won’t be the silent damnation … I will never be voiceless … my weapon of choice is I’d rather be dangerous! Everybody is somebody, and anybody is you! I own my story … I won’t say sorry … yeah, and neither should you! {Shinedown}