Chrisette Michele, For Freedom Not For Beauty
<p>((365Voice.com EXCLUSIVE)) Chrisette Michele talks Chad Ochocinco Johnson, India.Arie, Solange Knowles and Nappy Hair with The Chunky Chickz</p><p>Poem By Chrisette Michele<br />For Freedom Not For Beauty<br /><br />There’s a beauty that lives so deep inside each of us.<br />There’s a fickle eye that doesn’t believe anything it sees. <br />There’s a benefit in love that erases all doubt and believes good intentions.<br />There’s an ear that isn’t free enough to give the honest man the benefit of the doubt cluttered by lies not-mentioned. <br /><br />Since when is creativity subject to criticism?<br />When is honesty subject to a jury of fears who wouldn’t believe rain if it fell, or sun if it shined?<br /><br />Sometimes a flower grows when no one’s watching.<br />Sometimes a bird sings and no one hears.<br />There’s a meadow no one runs on and a cloud no one names. <br /><br />And what would the sky be without the sun?<br />What would the earth be without its rose?<br />They’d still be the sky and the Earth.<br /><br />So perhaps there is a peace in becoming.<br />Perhaps the meaning is in the experience and not the sight.<br />Maybe a flower grows because it suffocates underground.<br /><br />Whether or not she is always noticed, beauty must become. <br /><br />She doesn’t look for an eye. <br />She doesn’t listen for a voice. <br />She just becomes, <br /><br />For Freedom Not For Beauty<br /><br />-Chrisette Michele</p>
