MAGIC

I BELIEVE IN MAGIC

I believe we all have magic inside of us.

It’s not the kid of magic we wish it was.

We all want the type of magic we see in others.

Never the kind we already have.

YAN BELIEVES IN MAGIC TOO.

She sees it everywhere.

She paints with it,

A camera in hand.

No one has ever seen me the way she does.

If ever you wonder how it feels for me to be in this body.

Take a peek and read her poem below.

I love you Yan.

IMAGE CREATED BY YAN PALMER

I believe in Magic

The kind found in the ordinary ingredients of a day and lifetime-

The kind found in our working hands and our tired feet at night 

In the power of spoken truth to set soul geography

in motion

In the strength of resilient hearts fighting for open circles the world seems unprepared to expand- 

I believe in Magic

The way air can carry the scent of change

Can feel like instantaneous possibility

Where only moments ago was stuck despair

I believe in Magic

In the motion of our efforts appearing 

As a powerful painting-

As the art of our lives

With some strokes 

a deep, dark purple pulse, 

some blood red sacrifice, 

some growing and hopeful, 

the lightest shade of green--

I believe in Magic

The magic of belief

That when we say 

we can do more

We can be more-

When we speak it to ourselves first thing in the bright rushing morning

And again and again in our darkest, loneliest hours, 

As a promise

And a prayer

Then we can,

Then we will,

Then we must--

Not because you aren't enough

But because you are-

Now live it!

I believe in Magic, even if it's only witnessed

By the quiet walls of our home

The eyes of our children

Ever studying

And learning how to be

Kind. How to be honest. 

How to know a moment

And give themselves to it

The joy waiting in breakfast,

The wonder of a day to wrap in

I believe in Magic

In how those among us

Who have been the most knocked down

Possess it with a potency

We are only beginning to witness

And hoping to understand. 

—Yan Palmer