second thing next
know who demeans and who affirms you
It is precisely the world
(don’t let it tell you otherwise)
that tells you your life doesn’t matter—
that you’re of relatively minor significance—
that your voice doesn’t count—
that your perspectives and choices don’t bear meaning.
It’s the world that would smallify you.
It’s the world that values
men and power and white and wealth
and christian (in name anyway)
and tall and skinny etc etc
It is God who says, you are created in my image.
Male and female (and anyone who feels
more like somewhere on the scale between
than appropriately relegated to one of two points on a line),
rich and poor, gay and straight, trans and cis,
christian and anything else.
And my image, says God, is best (most appropriately) conveyed
in many images—as different from each other as different can be.
Don’t smallify me when I am all about biggering your reality
beyond any false constraints of expectations.
Grounds for Thought
