What I want is
someone to tell me
that I don’t have to be a skinny girl
or a curvy girl
or a pretty girl
or a strong girl
or a girl at all.
And so I touch my own face with both hands and say: You are the thing that is you. The thing that words don’t capture, nor pictures, nor your body, even though when it goes all the things that are you go, too, wherever they go—into dirt into stone into plants and little bugs. So love the flesh that holds you. Love the sky and earth that hold you. Love the water that carries you on its heartbeat-blood-run through the world. Love the cradle of your bed and the creatures that lick your hands and the ones that fear you and the ones that would eat you, if given the chance.
Original artwork by the author
This is Amazing
Thank you
Wonderful!
So powerful. And wonderful. Thanks for thinking like that. Its empowering!
Perfection! this is part of something elusive I’ve tried to express for a long time. THANK YOU!
Beautiful. Is there anywhere I can order a poster?
Love this – beautiful artwork and sentiment. I would buy a poster or gift as a card
Wonderful piece. Great sentiments. What a knockout, again. Of course it works for boys too!