
In honor of Pride Month I wanted to share a song I wrote and recorded many years ago. It was my way of responding to the deep, suicidal pain of someone I knew whose sexual orientation was an abomination to their church.
In this time of intensifying attack on those who do not fit conventional gender or sexual orientation norms, may we continue to stand in the truth of Love. May we celebrate the prism of diversity through which the divine Light expresses itself. May we bow to the beauty of every soul.
Beautiful You Are
How can I break through the pain
To tell you how beautiful you are?
How can I vanquish this cruel false god
To tell you the Universe loves you?
Who cast the stones that broke you
With their anger so righteous in their cause so divine?
And what did they say to convince you
That your Being is shameful and your loving a crime?
How can I break through the pain
To tell you how beautiful you are?
How can I vanquish this cruel false god
To tell you the Universe loves you?
Who was this god that they taught you
Who demanded your love, but detested your kind?
And how could they use sacred scriptures
To torture your spirit and torment your mind?
How can I break through the pain
To tell you how beautiful you are?
How can I vanquish this cruel false god
To tell you the Universe loves you?
That you are a diamond, a snowflake, a star,
That you were created to be who you are.
How can I shatter the lies,
To unbind your soul,
To soothe your wounds,
To see you whole?
Music, lyrics, guitar and vocals by Patricia Pearce