Facets

I
Crystal glass shows everything and nothing all at once.
To be a crystal you would have to have dark and light sides and every color in between,
and while you hold all these colors and ribbons you must, 
refract,
and then must combine and appear to be a single shade of clear and white.

II
So you think you can write with blue and black on lines so pink and white.
You think you are brilliant because that hundredth time those two words felt different, 
than the ninety-nine times before.
But you are scared of white so you write on yellow.
Yellow is much less threatening and when your mind loses track it seems you feel less reckless 
on the soft forgiving yellow than the cold starched white.

III
you think you know grace and its relationship with dignity 
but that is far too intimate for you to be a part of. 
Pink satin wind in your face.
You can generate wind that is beautiful and worth watching, 
and that is a gift.
One in a million but also one of a million, at once,
clean lines and perfection, 
never is enough.

IV
You can weep and be a thousand people, 
the faces unseen and as yet unimagined.
You can wear what does not belong to you 
and wear it well. 
You can feel emotion not yours and while that seems
somehow unholy, it is also right,
to give voice to the thousands left unspoken.

V 
you can be soft and know how to act and dress and represent. 
Bake soft chocolate brown with a dash of rich auburn, red.
Decorate the house, the haven, 
so that others will love it and be invited to stay.
Each day, Each mess a different aspect of joy,
in sharing that piece of warm rose colored glass.

VI
You can stand tall and read arithmetic in german,
as though it were spanish in english.
You can read to enjoy and to learn and to disprove and argue.
Be the perfect child until you turn, 
and are an adult strong willed, strong minded, 
strong.

VII
Maturity is not always something to fight but to relish in as well. 
When you were small you were silent but aware
and now you are not small, 
less silent, and not just aware but voiced.

VIII
You search for power and love and life and happiness. 
Why so sad?  It is coming to you, 
it is just slower than you like. 
You are in such a hurry to grow up, 
slow down, 
enjoy the dance and court the person you want to be.
She’s worth it.