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Selfish
You love me selflessly,
And I am selfish.
You peel your skin to show me the house inside of you,
And I ignore your pain and stare through the window.
You break the glass and sweep up the shards with your bare hands,
And I complain about my splinter from your wooden window seat.
You lead me to your garden and step in poison ivy along the way,
And I grow angry with you because a bee stings my left hand.
You pick me thirteen roses, your knuckles bleed from the thorns,
And I drop the vase on your cement porch.
You love my so selflessly,
But I am too selfish.
Unapologetically beautiful
Stop stuttering “s-s-sorry”
every time someone envies your porcelain skin.
When they tell you they spend hours
getting their hair to look like yours does naturally,
do not feel guilty for your God-given curls.
You may not have had to become a member at the gym
to get the legs you have,
but do not apologize when people let you know that.
Because they will let you know that.
Stop wearing baggy clothes
because it’s easier to feel ignored than to feel at blame for what you cannot control;
Take charge of your effortless loveliness.
You are unapologetically beautiful,
so act like it.
Self love
My dad doesn't believe in teaching girls to love themselves. He believes in lawn mowers and pecan pies. Self love should be instinctual, he says Self love is selfish, he says. So when he saw the magazine tossed to the end of the dinner table, Plastered with half naked Victoria's Secret models, Plasticized with double D breasts and 24 inch waists, He said "I don't get what's so hard about loving yourself."
Update
I have been receiving a lot of harsh messages and comments regarding my poem “Lessons for your Daughter.”
I hate having to explain poems because I feel that it takes away some of their beauty, but in an effort to end these messages/comments, and as a single response to all of these messages and comments, I will.
This poem was something I wrote over a year ago. It deals specifically with the impossible boundaries society has constructed that I feel have affected my life personally. I felt I grew up in a an environment, and in an era, whose society tried to force me to like certain things, to look certain ways, to think certain thoughts. I often felt troubled because I felt like I didn’t like these things, or look these ways, or think these thoughts. I wrote this poem as a sort of “note to self,” as a reminder that it is okay to be different from what these societal institutions, be it “the media,” or pop culture in general, try to force you to be.
I think the messages that I’ve been receiving stem from the style in which I wrote this piece. Instead of a first person form, I chose a (seemingly counterintuitive) second person form; this style was deliberate; It satirically and ironically mocks the narrow path that society established for my personal life. I will not apologize if this poem has offended you. If you disagree with its content or its ultimate message, do not reblog it.
I fell in love in pieces
I’ve fallen in love a thousand times.
I fell in love with your laugh
and the way it tumbled out of your mouth
abruptly and genuinely
the second I met you.
I fell in love with your lips
and the way they
curve when you’re happy
and purse when you’re upset
but most of all,
the way they mesh into mine, like puzzle pieces with rounded edges.
I fell in love with your hands
and the way they never lose their warmth,
even on November’s cold days,
or when you meet someone with an even colder heart.
I fell in love with the way they paint pictures of our future on the back of my hands
and plant seeds in my ribcage.
I fell in love with the flowers that have blossomed out of my lungs
and spread like a forest fire to the knobs of my spine--
which reminds me of yet another thing I have fallen in love with:
the arch of your back
and the way it rests,
relaxed like the sky on a January day at the beach.
I fell in love with the way you think I know it all:
all of earth’s complex mysteries,
you think I’ve solved them with methods of simplicity,
but really I’ve been living in my world of fantasy,
dreaming of--
Somedays.
I’ve fallen in love a thousand times.
Soulmates
You make me believe in soulmates.
I think mine will meet me on top of Mount Everest
With a bouquet of red tulips and shaking hands.
He will wear a smile and ripped khakis,
With a tattoo of a broken cross on his left knee
And a striped button-down with rolled up sleeves.
And he will greet me on that mountain top with a laugh
And say, “I have been waiting for you to make the climb.”
His eyes will be sunshine and his hands will be oak branches.
He will understand that sometimes I need an extra hour
To compose myself,
Emotionally,
And that will be okay with him.
He will remind me that rain is for dancing
And life is too short to not eat dessert first.
He will radiate freedom and for once in my life,
I will not want to tame a man, but instead, run wild with him.
He’ll buy the finest china in Asia
Just so we can throw it against dusty windows
And step on the glass ‘til we bleed.
Then I’ll bleed my heart dry telling him about the first time
I cut my wrists so deep they bled,
And the first time
I let a man love me enough that I stained the sheets with blood,
And the first time my heart bled thinking stained sheets was love
Because it’s not.
And he’ll tell me that my body is an atlas,
And every scar is someone’s hometown,
And they’re just as beautiful as rain in Paris.
He’ll buy airline tickets full price to Paris the next day
And he’ll tell me that Da Vinci got it wrong when he painted Mona Lisa
And that my smile would be a better masterpiece.
He’ll compare my smile to a lighthouse and
His heartbeat to a lost ship,
Because if skipped beats are storms at sea,
Then my laugh is the north star.
But at the end of the day,
He’ll look at me before bed and say, “let’s celebrate”
And before I have enough time to question why,
He’ll say, “you’re alive and you make me glad that I am too.”
I can’t write about you anymore. There is nothing more to say. It is all empty and broken and useless.
Michelle K., Last Year (via bez0ar)
Anatomy and grief
When know becomes knew And am becomes was, When love becomes loved And found becomes lost, Find comfort in the change. Relish in the fact that your body Regenerates every 7 years, and Find peace in knowing that It has over 60,000 miles of blood vessels. When morning seems to only bring more mourning, Rejoice, for your heart will beat over 100,000 times today. Make each beat count because They cannot be sealed in Tupperware and saved as left-overs for the next day. When everything is a reminder of the loss, like when You maneuver your tongue over the gap the old tooth created and taste the metal flavor, Remember that your sense of smell is 10,000 times more powerful than your sense of taste, And nothing smells quite like Grandma's Chicken Noodle Soup on a January afternoon. Smile because things change and time makes them easier to accept. Laugh because your body deserves it.
B5- hit and sink
We always wanted to travel, but we could never afford it, So we settled for exploring each other's minds like atlases. After two-and-a-half years of slashing and burning, I think I've finally peeled back a single layer Of the dense forest of your mind. But after two-and-a-half years of swimming endlessly, You told me you couldn't find anything. You said you now understood why I failed Chemistry, and biology, and physics: Because my head was filled with a vast ocean. But you didn't swim long enough or search hard enough; My mind is an island surrounded by constant waves that inevitably crash on shore. It's hidden at a coordinate only I know, And you can't simply play battleship to find it.
I was 19 when I finally stopped opening the door for unrequited love. I was 20 when I first learned that courage tasted like bitter wine and metal. Like blood and honey. When I told you I loved you, I screamed it. I let it rip it’s way out of my throat, and it felt so good that I cried. The other day, you walked by me with your friends and I could feel the pity in your stare. Don’t you do that. Don’t you look at what I had for you and call it weak. Not when you were the one afraid of it. I stood there with my hands open, my mouth bruised tender with supplication. Don’t you dare treat me like a victim of my own emotions, like being moved to my knees by love was a mistake that I regret. I will go to my grave with the memory of the bravery in my bones. I am not ashamed of any of it. Not the closed door in my face or the static silence of my phone for weeks after. I was not afraid. I am still not afraid. I will never be afraid again. Bring in the beasts with teeth like tree branches. Bring in all the men who will never love me. Bring in the monsters with faces carved out of stone. I am not afraid. They can eat me alive. I am not afraid. I will cut my way out of their bellies. I am not afraid. Never again.
Unrequited | Caitlyn S. (via absentions)
I have galaxies hidden between my bones and I will love you until the stars burn out.
Unknown (via shinellie)
And I am jealous of your tattoos and how long they will stay with you after I go.
Clementine von Radics (via bokura)
They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving, maybe I’m going home.
Vincent Freeman, Gattaca (via stannisbaratheon)
The problem with being human
The problem with being human is: We have an entire region of the brain devoted to memory, But we can't choose what to remember. Psychologists argue about implicit and explicit memory and the existence of repression, But if you ask me, Freud is full of it Because I remember exactly what he wore When he pushed me onto the floor, And I will never forget what his hands felt like When he forced them to do things I had only ever seen on television screens. The gold door knob still clicks locked on repeat, And my screams are still as silent as winter. -- On second thought, maybe Freud isn't so wrong after all. Maybe repression is a side-effect of depression Because I've seemed to repress everything good in my life. My parents talk about planting sunflowers in the backyard And building sand castles in St. Petersburg, But I only remember waking up to petals on the ground And a high tide that caused my towers and drawbridges to crumble. I really do wish I was that sunflower or that sand castle, Not this human with mishaps in the hippocampus.
It's important to realize that beautiful isn't synonymous with thin and numbers on scales are not tantamount to intelligence quotients.