My original poem “10 THINGS TO TELL THE GIRL I NEVER WAS”
10 things To Tell The Girl I Never Was
1. You are a hurricane of mismatched puzzle pieces
Most days you don’t even make sense to yourself
Your lips were put on backwards
And your voice box put in your throat upside down.
Someday you’ll be a picture you can be proud of
Someday you’ll look in the mirror and see a man instead of a mistake.
2. You are a roadway with broken stop signs
You are growing too fast for your own comfort
Collecting flowers from your concrete cracks
To make a bouquet of self hatred
Like the one you thought you’d have to throw on your wedding day
3. Our lungs are like a pack of cigarettes, always wheezing out addictions.
Be addicted to being kind
But most of all, be addicted to breathing.
I know its hard sometimes to take in the oxygen you deserve,
You are not the only one that feels as though your bones are caging you into a skin that binds a bird with broken wings
and your friends will still love you
Even when they say “But it made you so pretty!”
6. You are not pretty, you are handsome.
7. Show the world your heart.
Even if its been stepped on
Even if it doesn’t look so pretty anymore
Wear it around your neck like a medal saying
8. There will come a time when you won’t feel so heavy
The world will be a beautiful place,
and things will be different because
9. Change is the only consistent thing in this world.
You will not be sad forever.
Someday you won’t avoid mirrors and
You will feel pride growing inside your chest like a dying star every time someone says your name.
You will someday wake up smiling
You will someday wake up.
It feels like the end of the world
The world you know is ending
You won’t feel so mismatched.
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