George Orwell once said:
The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self.
Guess what, though? YOU … are NEVER … “alone“! Go look into a mirror right now! Do you see that stranger looking back at you? THAT person “sees” you! THAT person hears you! THAT person has your six! THAT’S your ride or die! THAT person does understand you inside and out, and THAT’s the ONLY mortal being you can count on to never let you down or abandon you as the seasons change!
THAT person is literally PRICELESS!
Much to the contrary, actually, so often in their loneliness, people really do feel as though they’re fading and disappearing into the background until they eventually reduce themselves to nothing more than the ghostly apparition of their former self because THEY abandon THEMSELVES! “The Task“, however, is for THEY to choose NOT TO!
With that, here’s me passing along yet another whack-a-doodle “song of myself” to you and your “ghost”. You know, that shadow of a person you’ve separated and hidden yourself away from for so, so very long now?
Do me a favor and read these words out loud to yourself as though a friend or loved one were speaking them. Sounds silly, right? WHO CARES? Just do it, please! HAVE this powerful conversation with yourself – NOW:
Speak of the devil, look who just walked into the room. The guilted and faded notion of someone I once knew. All the perfect moments are wrong. All the precious pieces are gone. Everything that mattered is just a city of dust covering both of us. So many silent sorrows you never hear from again, and now that you’ve lost tomorrow, is yesterday still a friend? All the bridges we built were burned. Not a single lesson was learned. Everything that mattered is just a city of dust covering both of us. Did you hide yourself away? I can’t see you anymore. Did you eclipse another day? I used to wake up to the color of your soul. Did you hide yourself away? Are you living through the ghost? Did you finally find a place above the shadows so the world will never know? The world will never know you like I do.
So? How’d it go? How did hearing those words “from you to you” make you feel? Pray GOD they made you feel some kind of way, but more so than anything, here’s hoping “you and you” can finally find a place to reconnect far above the shadows of a world that will never know you like YOU do! Pretty deep, huh? But do you understand what mommy is saying? Ghosts aren’t always so scary, by the way … especially when it’s the ghost of YOU!
Oh, and one last thing …
This epic song was released eleven years ago today via the birth of its mother, “Amaryllis“, which, too, is an entire song of myself, “The Queen Of The Night“!
The Diary Of My Perfection 
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