RONNIE NEAL

You

Snippets out of "You", a little book I wrote and illustrated a few years ago

Inside of you is the stuff dreams are made of.

Don't you know you're the child of a Sun,
a billion, billion ones.

You were given a gift,
a gift that only asks
that you be you.

Beautiful, bold and brilliant.
It's true.

It doesn't matter if the world walks straight
but you prefer to swirl...

Fear is afraid
to let you become you.
It whispers that maybe
you're not good enough...

But I tell you,
I shout it,
sing it,
and dance it.

You're extraordinarily fantastic.

And if on this journey
you should meet hatred,
stand up straight
and grace them with kindness

Because it could be your moment
to open their world from a deep
and hardened blindness

And maybe you can help them
to find that dream that died
a thousand dreams ago

without fear, without shame
living your bravest life
with no one to blame

Explore those dreams,
the impossibles and betweens.
for when you do, you'll discover...

a hidden part
like no other...

For Her, who moves like the ocean
Book, 2018