To whom it may concern

If you're out there and you can hear me, I wonder if you've been listening. I wonder if you care to lend an ear to my life story to get the pieces I know you've been missing.

But probably not; after all this world is just a judgmental stereotypical hell hole where unhappy rich people suck the life and satisfaction out of a lot of people's souls. So close your mouth and take a listen. Class is in section, open your book and ears, and let's get to the lesson!

You just know my name but, my story lies beneath. To judge or to understand, to look past the mistakes and depressive peak, one has to listen, chill out darling, and just have a seat.

Listen in to the pain I've struggled from the time I learned to walk, through the time I opened my mouth and you realized that I could talk.

As I grew and watched people fall out of my life like leaves on a tree, I soon would come to realize the ones who wanted to stay, tried to be the roots, and sprouted through me.

Until I grow to be a woman successful, happy, and free I take everything that was taught to me and go out and teach! Even then I still wish to touch many souls, any soul. To help make this world a better place, make people feel whole!

Since, you have broken them down, I know a healer who's in my neighborhood and he's coming to your town. Now follow me on a journey of feelings.

Touching people hearts and letting them know you're willing. Break down a wall, and be a friend. Help them out when they're in need, there to lend a hand, give them shelter, food to eat! Wipe away the tears on their face as if they shall cry no more, look them in the eyes and saying “No more sleeping on concert floor!”

Give them a sense of hope and faith. Tell them about Jesus' love and his saving grace. Be that one when no ones in sight, protect, defend, stand up and fight!

Fight for what you believe in, what you think is right. Fight for freedom and equality because everyone deserves equal rights. Rights to be happy, to be loved, to be sad, and not to be disliked; every, straight, homosexual, African American, and White. The right to smile, to cry, to argue, to brawl then make peace! The right to go out in public and scream I'm no one else but me!

I mean from an egg, to a fetus, baby, to a toddler. From a kid to a teen, all the while probably without a father. From a teen to an adult, then an adult into the old with more experience, more sense, more worth and self-control not trying to be like the next guy, just trying to be their selves! At the end of the day they can't get you into heaven but they could take you to hell!

See, even with the pain in your heart and maybe deep in your soul, forgive and let go it's not healthy to sit, and hold. Just promise not to make a habit out of second because, people could just be dead twigs hanging from your branches!

Aarionna Holliday

To Be Heard

06/24/2014