Hello to every single sweet pea. It’s my birthday (on Saturday lol) but you are getting this on a Wednesday since I am a textbook Gemini and gotta commit to all of my crazy bits! How’ve you been? I relate to this scene for some reason:
I remember watching this for the first time in elementary school and thought it was funny how Butterfly by Crazy Town was a theme throughout the movie. Fine art. Ahhh the cinema! Call me… a cinephile :)<3
So anyways yes I was born and we celebrate. I love getting older. In fact, I was just talking to a bestie about how every year feels like an upgrade. I am the iPhone28 now. Actually phones SUCK but you get it! It’s all getting better, love.
on being a Gem
I am a metallic main character like a dizzy pinball
launched to light its mechanical universe
I am up and down and both goofy and totally serious
simultaneously like the overlap of curtain clouds
presenting the sun
Presently I give myself gifts
I like to be reminded of a certain year
that rhymes with
“I’m not the only one”
I am on a team with me, myself and
I treat art as a sport for the healing
I see emotions as colors and love as
the reason to take a deep breath and
blow out the glimmering diamond flames
I used to get so red in the face
when I would dance vigorously
flushed hot eruptions,
I am shimmering and shimmying my way through
I contain an entire world inside
which makes me suspect
in another life I was a coral reef and not an air dweller
but hey who knows you better
than you, my gem
Loves to organize so she can see herself more clearly
Loves admitting that it’s not easy playing cool
I would rather be odd in fact I have always felt
“other” and enjoy other people who are politely
weird and exciting!
I can tell when you’re acting and THAT…
is a misuse of magic:
to not reserve your powers for good
I can tell you how exciting it is to not know
what art I will make tomorrow, the discoveries
I will see an entire short story or movie everywhere I look
This is all true, I can’t help but make a narrative
about the strangers I witness
I am in love with the possibilities and probability
that goodness fuels
I am the flip-side symmetrical butterfly craft
folding the paper to create a paint sandwich
Ingest with the eyes the
genuine sight is seeing things for what they are
I will be the first to say I don’t know everything
on this side where I stand with my ballerina posture
I am just as uncertain as you
and isn’t it awesome how we can have fun with life like
this and not have every answer
Except my chrysalis knows best
The fantastic familiarity
the feelings we try to label is only the surface
Of beauty, my life is the art and a trust fall
(more like a fling!)
I am a yellow turning orange sitting next to purple
Ripest without trying I trust trust trust
and the rest is ecstasy
for me
I love inspiring which literally translates to
breathing
It’s so HOT
How could I not love being a gem
I like you A LOT for being here!
Gabrielle
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