Tomorrow which will become today just to turn into yesterday

Yesterday, i cried but nobody saw
Yesterday, i sat around because i thought you had abandoned me
Yesterday, i felt inadequate and alone
Yesterday,
yesterday is gone
good, gone, done, never to come back

Today i smilled uncontrolably
today, i danced
today, i looked up and was blind by the sunshine
today, i finally felt the warmth of your embrace as I walked around and the sun was on my face
today, i thought again of the clues you've left along the way for me to find.
today, it's almost gone
today, i'm excited to find out what you have prepared for tomorrow.

Today will become yesterday.
yesterday will be erased and forgotten..even though you had planed an esplendid yesterday.
but I failed to see yesterday.

Tomorrow could be like today
tomorrow will eventually be yesterday.
tomorrow will come,
tomorrow will go
tomorrow will be itself

You will be tomorrow.

Yesterday, that's what i want to forget.
but don't let me forget that it was me who messed up yesterday.
Today, i can't get enough of today
Tomorrow...let me see you tomorrow, Lord

Tomorrow will rain...
let me dance in the rain...
let me smile to it and be blinded by the rainbow in the puddle.

Tomorrow which will eventualy be today just to turn into yesterday

a shade of gray

I'm not much for reality tv....i would prefer to watch Gilmore Girls or friends any time instead of a reality show. But today is not about reality shows...today is about something else that start me thinking after watching this reality show...

"Black, White" is a reality show about two families (one white, and one black) that trade colors (with make up) adn live together to try to understand eachother and once again take a look at the racial issues that are still going on.
Let's start with this: Yes, racial issues are still a big deal. Racism exist. It is shown is somehow a different way than before, but it exists. And black people can be equally racist than white people.
Being politicly correct creates as many barriers as it breaks, this is about being truthful but respectful.

So, I am watching this show and I'm atonished at how little hope they have for eachother. These families have come together to help eachother's ignorance, but from the begining both seem to know the other is going to fail to see their point of view.

The Black family truly believes that everything the white family does is an act. Nothing seems to be genuine enough for them. If they raise their hands and say "amen" at church, they are perseived as impostors trying to be black. Have you thought that as white people they don't have the freedom to do that at church? If they raised their hands, dance, or shout amen they would probably be consider freaks in a white or black church...have you thought of that?

The white family is scared...they take very few risks at aproaching this black family...they're afraid to walk on an eggshell...and when they do...they just seem to jump on it and keep crashing the same shell...have you thought of listening A LOT??? have you thought of taking a risk even if that means you're gonna get a slap on your face??

believe me! the only way not to break an eggshell is not to move at all....if we do that...this society will go nowhere...
I am just as prejudice as I make others to be....that's the only for sure thing...
and you may ask who am I to voice my opinions and point at the problem...

I'm a person who was the majority for about 15 years...and after that I've been the minority...a diferent kind of minority group from time to time..(a simple foreigner, the MK, the international student, a hispanic)...been there...done that...

admit that you are equally, or more, racial than they are....admit that you're responding to their abuse with another kind of abuse....admit that you're afraid to ask....admit that you too judge them before they open their mouths...admit that you are willing to step on eggshells if that's what it takes for a step foward....admit that you don't know....

sight

Sometimes I wonder why I'm able to see certain things.
ignorance is far worse than anything else...but sight brings about too many responsabilities.
Moving around shows you a couple of things...opens eyes and streches your mind.
The infinite knowledge either hardens your heart or breaks it into pieces..pieces that as they're gathered, they add whatever they've gained while being apart.
Soon enough you realize that you have more in you than you had before.
then the fear settles....
the fear of not responding to those pieces that have been added.
the fear to be blinded to them
the fear to forget...

even worse

the fear to fail to the responsabilities of the one abel to see

now I see...what am I supposed to do..make you see it too?

but what is IT?

IT is you....is the one sitting next to you...is the one accross from the street..the quiet, the loud, the shy, the outgoing, the funny, the grumpy,...

IT is me...

and

IT is you...

open up your eyes...uncross your arms...put them down...

and SEE