What is Michael Jackson’s legacy? The dance, the music, the family, and the children he left behind. His obvious talent will in my opinion never be surpassed. In that last video he seems to have more energy & stamina that those half his age, dancing with him. I can’t imagine how his family feels right now particularly his mother & children. No matter what anyone is saying about biology a child is yours if you love them and take care of them!
If our world were a garden most of us would be on the outside looking in. There are a rare few, a handful that reside in the garden. We are created with open naivety that can get us into trouble. For those on the inside, love is a pure emotional connection and has no sexual or physical connotation. It is simply, “the comfort I feel when I'm around you”. I honestly believe that Michael Jackson was one of these rare flowers inside the garden. His love of fellow man, lead him down a blind road of constant humanity. Unfortunately in our society if you don’t assimilate, if you choose to be yourself onlookers will always assign judgment. Perhaps this is the greatest lesson that we can learn from his life is not to judge, accept people for who they are and understand that some of us want to love in purity. Through his music, he made it abundantly evident who he was and what he thought about life. I leave you with snippets of some of his lyrics that gave me insight:
BEN
Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me …
…I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben…
HAVE YOU SEEN MY CHILDHOOD
Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from…
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities...
People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood I've never known...
Before you judge me, try hard to love me.
The painful youth I've had
Have you seen my Childhood....
MAN IN THE MIRROR
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place…
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change…
PRIVACYAin't the pictures enough, why do you go through so much
To get the story you need, so you can bury me
You've got the people confused, you tell the stories you choose
You try to get me to lose the man I really am …
You keep on stalking me, invading my privacy
Won't you just let me be ….
… Now there's a lesson to learn, respect's not given, it's earned…
I need my privacy, I need my privacy
So paparazzi, get away from me
GONE TOO SOON
Like a comet
Blazing 'cross the evening sky
Gone too soon
Like a rainbow
Fading in the twinkling of an eye
Gone too soon
Shiny and sparkly
And splendidly bright
Here one day
Gone one night
Like the loss of sunlight
On a cloudy afternoon
Gone too soon
Like a castle
Built upon a sandy beach
Gone too soon
Like a perfect flower
That is just beyond your reach
Gone too soon
Born to amuse
To inspire to delight
Here one day
Gone one night
Like a sunset
Dying with the rising of the moon
Gone too soon
Michael Jackson, may you find in the beyond what you couldn’t find on earth – R.I.P.
T.
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