
Shelter in a storm…Your willow, when the sun is out
What is honest beauty? Really? Would it be a sought after lover whispering in your ear…your size doesn’t matter to me…what is important is on the inside!
I’ve said that more times than I care to admit, recently. Yet, if we are being honest. Yes, a small/petite/brunette with a hint of awkwardness and a touch of ambiguity along side a strong sense of pride and tossed into a salad bowl of intelligence would suit me just fine.
Just fine! That would mark me as vain. I would be no different than most.
Honest beauty, however, doesn’t really come in a bottle of dyed to be blonde and dumb. It does not POP out of a package of pretend shyness. Nor is it an any booty call cried by bad fashion on the back of an ass built like a billboard.
Having the good fortune to live with beauty, a partner slowly becoming the confident and the comfortable woman she has always been to me: I am able to see the forest for the trees.
Anarchy, back in the day, had been a forbidden fruit of breath taking charisma. I believe it still has an illusive hold on me. To step outside of the confinements of pop country/western and bubble gum piercings half meant to make a statement. Real anarchy is throwing one’s weight against an immovable object expecting that someday a change will come. Plight and fight is in the beauty of unbiased beings.
There is a tree, much to my chagrin, for I abhor taking pictures of wood. It has been over done and over worked and over the top for too many avid photographers. Akin to taking pictures of covered bridges and stone walls.
However, the beauty that surrounds this one tree. I believe it to be a willow. Is the direct result of the charm each branch gives off. Sitting quietly off in the distance in a field and edging itself around a shallow pond. My willow is no different than yours or someone else’s willow.
But see, there is the difference in honest beauty, it has composed itself enough to make someone stop everyday, every backwoods mile and every bump in the road; and breath in and breath out.
This simple trick of Mother Nature has left me breathless and knowing one thing…I will never truly capture ‘honest beauty’ for that is not in the definition.
Willow
I may not be your best
You know good ones
Don’t come by the score
If you’ve got something missing
I’ll help you look
You can be sure
And if you want to be alone
Or someone to share a laugh
Whatever you want me to
All you got to do is ask
Thunder
Don’t go under the sheets
Lightening
Under a tree
In the rain and snow
I’ll be your fire inside
Come running to me
When things get out of hand
Running to me
When it’s more than you can stand
I said I’m strong
Straight
Willing
To be a
Shelter
In a storm
Your willow oh willow
When the sun is out
A fight with your best girl
Prettiest thing you ever saw
You know I’ll listen
Try to get a message to her
And if it’s money you want
Or trouble halved
What ever you want me to
All you got to do is ask
I said I’m strong
Straight
Willing
To be a
Shelter in a storm
Your willow oh willow
When the sun is out…
A step off the path of traveling with Ambien Annie C., and you can see forever.








