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fascinated by my tattoo, a young girl at the hiv/aids clinic in india insisted i draw cherry blossoms on her hand. we decorated each other’s hands and got to dwell in the beauty of life for a few moments despite the heart-wrenching pain surrounding us.
when she finds the magazines underneath her husband’s side of the bed,
she’ll stand naked in front of the mirror for hours (… well what did you expect?)
“bang dumb blondes, sexy singles and busty brunettes…”
i must not be as beautiful as the advertising says…
miss, i saw your poster recently…
i read your ad in one of playboy’s latest magazines, actually…
i’ve fed every need that i believed photography could feed me
if you can believe me… i hate it.
you are worth so much more than my brief moment of orgasm
when i allow my mind to deceive me.
i’d like to be an open book and it’s hard to admit
how i take advantage of the desires God gave me…
but i don’t want to sugarcoat this - i feel hopeless, trapped in brokenness -
like i lost before i ever started racing…
and i know as well as anybody, this is a difficult topic to be facing,
and a difficult confession for me to be making
but i’m stating that when God started the molding, shaping and creating -
you were not designed to be the objects that men look at while masturbating.
baby, never forget that you were made for relating and i’m sick of failing
to realize exactly what it is that i’m saying…
i apologize.
it was never my intent to ruin lives, compromise, or feed these eyes
something other than what was designed.
i apologize.
it was never my desire to downsize or objectify the beauty God designed
to be wrapped tight until its proper time…
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today i had the pleasure of following some of the lovely staff from Step Ahead (an organization in partnership with people living in poverty—they operate programs in micro-finance, women and children at risk, capacity building and community economic development) and got to see how they’re empowering women and helping families stay together in the klong toey district (bangkok’s largest slum community).
captured: they teach children about savings like this little girl when they’re young so when they grow up, they know how to budget their money:). how great is that? pretty great.
