God Says Yes To Me

[harborshore]

This poem--I don't believe in god, but there's something about it that just makes me feel like dancing.


God Says Yes To Me
Kaylin Haught

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes



Do you have a poem or a quote or a song that makes you happy? Feel free to post it in the comments, lovelings. ♥

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outing myself as a huge nerd...

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

The last lines of Origin of Species:

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

IN CONCLUSION: OMG THE WORLD IS SO FLIPPIN' COOL, CAN YOU EVEN STAND IT. A;SLDKFJA.

Also, thank you for sharing that poem, I am in love with it. *dances*

Re: outing myself as a huge nerd...

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

IL ALL NERDS.

Also, yes yes, this: from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. I remember having an argument with my freshman year roommate about science and religion, and she said, "But isn't it degrading, being related to apes?" And I said, thinking, oh, honey, "We came from stardust. How is that not amazing enough?"

Re: outing myself as a huge nerd...

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, that reminds me of one of my very favorite lines of poetry, actually, by C.S. Lewis, The Meteorite: All that is Earth has once been sky. I am not especially enamoured of the rest of the poem, but that one line, oh man, it just sounds for me.

Also, apes are amazing and there's nothing degrading about being related to them! I am much more upset about being related to several terrible specimens of humanity than I ever would be about knowing my own evolutionary history, about how our particular species split off and reacted differently to enviromental conditions, stood upright and started speaking. When you think about all the tiny infintesimal chances that lined up from the survival of the ancestor of all Chordates, Pikaia, to a branch of hominoids becoming bipedal, how is that not absolutely amazing and a miracle in its own way? THE WORLD IS A BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY PLACE. LET'S ALL JUST REVEL IN IT.

Re: outing myself as a huge nerd...

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

YES. I am much more upset about being related to several terrible specimens of humanity than I ever would be about knowing my own evolutionary history, about how our particular species split off and reacted differently to enviromental conditions, stood upright and started speaking. And also, what you said about the beauty of chance, yes, yes a million times.