HER NAME IS... Alicia Alonso Martinez, Her company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955.

GOODNESS GRACIOUS.. this man is smooth. Trouble MAN I come up hard baby, but now I'm cool I didn't make it sugar, playin' by the rules I come up hard baby, but now I'm fine I'm checkin trouble sugar, movin' down the line I come up hard but that's okay 'Cause trouble man, don't get in my way I come up hard, baby I've been for real, baby, gonna keep movin', gonna go to town I come up hard I come up gettin' down There's only three things that's for sure Taxes, death and trouble This I know baby, this I know sugar Girl Ain't gon let it sweat me babe Got me singin', yeah, yeah, ooh Come up hard, baby, I had to fight Took care my business with all my might I come up hard, come up hard, I had to win Then start all over and win again I come up hard but that's okay 'Cause trouble man don't get in my way, hey, hey I know some places and I seen some faces I got my connections, they take my directions What people say, that's okay, they don't bother me, no I'm ready to make it, don't care 'bout the weather Don't care 'bout no trouble, got myself together Laughin', no cryin', my protection's all around me I come up hard, baby, I've been for real, baby With the trouble mind, movin', goin' tight I come up hard, come on, get down There's only three things for sure Taxes, death and trouble, oh This I know, baby, this I've known, baby Hey now, let it sweat, baby, ooh All right, baby, ooh I've come up hard, but now I'm cool I didn't make it, baby, playin' by the rules I've come up hard, baby, but now I'm fine I'm checkin' trouble, sugar, hey, movin' down the line, oh

I had resolved to having my LOVE lock down. Surviving my last heart-break.. picking up the cracked pieces of my heart off the ground and was privately piecing my tender heart back together. I gave it all.. I kept in mind I couldn't keep myself and keep him too. I gave my love too eagerly. There are things that I can't keep from my mind no matter how much forgiving I do. Nightmares I want to share, the way the clouds moved me yesterday. Instead, keeping it lock down. The blow was hard, I lost something more than love.. lost a friend. Believing that he will always be in my heart, however has no place in my life gives me a temporary peace. Out of the blew as if it had sincerely fell from the sky, this person has galloped into my life, shining brighter, more brave than I could of imagined anyone to be in this day in age. Moreover, his strong feelings, naturally grow in reciprocal. He isn't mine and yet belongs to someone else. HOwever, The journey breaths happy, constant laughter surrounds our every interaction, not to the point of oblivion, just right. I trust and believe him, but it is myself I no longer trust these days. My judgement has been far from what I ever saw myself as.. such a fight exists inside. Trying to understand before being understood. What am I thinking? I distance the belief I was meant to be loved or able to love with a one track mind... are they one in the same. It gets harder and harder to dream these days.. still I press on.

INTROSPECTIVE, PSYCHE, DISCOVER, EXPLORE, ENCOURAGE, CHALLENGE, EMBRACE, CONFIDENCE, KNOWLEDGE, HUMBLENESS, MAGIC... Words to live by.

The believing in something bigger than yourself requires great sacrifice. It's selfless and selfish simultaneously. On a science fictional level, this is why Rogue has always resonated with me. A supreme being that can do so much good, but the cost is that she can't physically touch any other human. When she does, she absorbs their memory and strength as her own. She is destined to a life of solitude but at the same time able to save and help bring balance.

Art by : Lady Morgil

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.