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Beyoncé got creative with her latest magazine spread in CR Fashion Book.

Anyone can give an interview, it’s super-easy. You’re just answering everyone’s burning questions! When you’re Queen B, though, you can afford to be a little different.

On the heels of her amazing performance at the 2014 MTV VMAs, Bey decided that she’s done enough to address the controversy in her life. Besides, she wanted to take the focus off of herself, and once again shine the spotlight on her daughter Blue Ivy!

Calling Blue her “biggest muse,” Beyoncé waxes poetic about prayer, family, performing and the Beyhive in the poem. And she also wants to heal everyone’s pain through her music! B didn’t write the words per se, but she did provide the words and had them remixed by Forest Gander.

“Bey the Light”

Words Beyoncé

Remixed by Forrest Gander

It’s my daughter, she’s my biggest muse.

There’s someone, we all find out soon,

more important than ourselves to lose.

I feel a deep bond with young children –

all those photos in my dressing room –

especially those who’ve been stricken,

Children I’ve met across the years –

they uplift me like pieces of moon,

and guide me, whispering in my ear

I’m turned to spirits, the emotions of others.

And I feel her presence all the time

though I never met my grandmother.

I learned at a very young age,

when I need to tap some extra strength,

to put my persona, Sasha, on stage.

Though we’re different as blue and red,

I’m not afraid to draw from her

in performance, rifts, even in bed.

I saw a TV preacher when I was scared,

at four or five, about bad dreams,

who promised he’d say a prayer,

If I put my hand to the TV.

That’s the first time I remember prayer,

an electric current humming through me.

You call me a singer, but I’m called to transform,

to suck up the grief, anxiety, and loss

of those who hear me into my song’s form.

I’m a vessel for all that isn’t right,

for break-ups and lies and double-cross.

I sing into that vessel a healing light.

To let go of pain that people can’t bear.

I don’t do that myself, I call in the light.

I summon God to take me there.

Utopias, they don’t much interest me.

I always mess things up a bit.

It’s chaos, in part, that helps us see.

But for my daughter I dream a day

when no one roots for others to fail,

when we all mean what we say.

All About Blue Ivy!
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Awww: Beyoncé Pays Tribute To Daughter Blue Ivy With A Poem  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com