Tehya McDonald

Boundless

I bleed many colors

You can find the richest ones traced in a rural midwest sky

Open fields

Birds soaring

Dancing with me when everyone else is afraid

See I am many things that can’t be reached or explained

Many things I don’t yet know how to show you

But if I could try

If you could feel me

If you were able to melt into my skin and live inside my mind

It would be in the most tender touch

A god fearing glance

A whisper in a crowded room

Songs that hug your soul

And words that fill your heart

The sounds of me would open you in ways you never knew

Captured behind a lens

Stirring your perception of every single thing you thought you recognized

Moving you through versions of yourself you haven’t visited in many years

Moving you to versions of yourself you have yet to reach

I am not one to be defined or categorized

I am not one to be recognized in a world where I am refused to be embraced

I am everything and nothing

I am peace and I am chaos

I am truth

I am freedom

I am love

I am the artist and the art

Beaming with light

Lost to the people that think they are found

Found to the people that know they don't need to be

I am

Tehya