Passions, Seriously

Our passions are what make us tick. We take them seriously and we want others to also... but what happens when we forget that we aren't the only ones who have passions and desires to be noticed. When we do something we love we want everyone to see it and we want it to be taken as we take it. The way we see something is a marvelous work of WHO we actually are. It is how we can see who we are from what God gave us. We are showing what makes us who we are, where we come from, and where we want to go. In music its a new lyric, new song, or a new beat; in art its a new picture, sculpture, photo, or idea; in writing, its a story. Behind all this though, we have that one little thing to each of us that makes the new creation how it is... It's not the title, the color, the people in it, or the origin of the creation... It is the fact that we, ourselves, made it with our own abilities and concepts and the being that we are. We put our own signature on each of these items. When others choose to step over the boundaries that they know are already there, they have broken the silent vow that happens to be between each of us. Tell me, when we look at a piece of art, don't we see the artist's signature? When we hear a song, we think of the band that sang or wrote it? When you look at a photograph, do you see a watermark of the proud photographer who took the photo? Or do you simply keep on going and take the things around you as things that are just 'there'?  Our passions are not a joke to us, and they shouldn't be a joke to anyone else. The second we decide that one's works are a joke it is like telling that person they are a joke.
I don't care how NOT serious you take something, but when it comes to giving someone credit for their work? I believe that is NEVER, and i repeat, NEVER a joke. Next time you create some beautiful creation think of someone using it and saying THEY made it.. you, the creator, has been bypassed.
Our passions define who we are. Our passions are not mere hobbies, each passion we invest in we put a picture of our soul into. Save us all a little bit of who we are and give credit where it should be given because I honestly don't think you would want someone claiming your body as their own.
Take it seriously or I won't take you seriously. Until I get the respect I deserve, you exist nowhere in the realm of my creation. You are merely another person who has no respect for the beauty of an individual.

Take me down kicking
screaming and bleeding
but i won't give up now
not while I'm breathing

You've ruined who i am
you've taken what i love
stolen all my beauty
and now I want it duly

The moment that you listen
is the moment I will try
the moment that you listen
is when I'll look you in the eye

Until the day I hear you
I will sit here all in all
I'll sit here fighting fury
I'll be here standing tall

Next time that i see you
my face will face up high
I'll face you as an equal
Giving credit till i fall