Life’s Diversity

When your life beings

You’re handed a blank canvas

That’s all your own

To draw whatever you wish

The possibilities are endless

The paint brush is in your hand

You put the tip of it on the page

And wait, not knowing what to paint

You see that blank space looming over your life

And you can’t seem to get that picture out of your mind

The next thing you know

There are 10 more canvases waiting for you to help their owners paint them

And the knowledge that you could let all those people down

Crashes over you until it’s too much

And the tears spill over

But then you have an idea

And just let yourself go

And let your soul take over

So that the brush seems to move on its own accord

You step back and look upon your creation

And see what the paint has made

Something so different than anything that has been made before

Something that is only yours

And the only name that comes to you is this

“Life’s Diversity” by you

Your painting is unique from everyone else’s around you

Theirs has reds and blues and yellows

While yours has greens and purples and blacks and whites and every color of the rainbow

So when you think that yours is not good enough

Just think of that rainbow on your canvas

Unlike any other

That’s who you are

And that’s who you should be