Hey guys, I know I said I was going to mostly only be reviewing books on here and so far I've done almost anything but, my excuse- FINALS ( and a small dosage of laziness). Any-who, hopefully after Finals I will have a lot more time to read and review. For now though, I wanted to share a poem that I wrote for AP English. The assignment was to write 10 things we know to be true and then if we wanted to , address it to a future daughter/son/anyone else thats we can force to listen to us and influence with our words of wisdom :) Let me know what you think , I wrote it to be read as a spoken word poem but it can be read as an essay as well <3 let me know what you think!!
If I should have a daughter I would tell her that I love her- that my first words as I hold her in my arms will have been “I love you” whispered on a breath that holds all the reverence for miracles in this world in three simple words.
I will be the mom that will cuddle and squeeze till she begs me to stop embarrassing her in front of her friends and I will empty every drop of love and unconditional devotion into her soul till she knows just how much this world loves and needs her.
I will tell her the things my parents told me, small adage’s of wisdom I happened to catch when I am not too busy trying to get all my own words and instead really listened - that family always comes first and you can always count on your family to be there for you. But! I would remind her to be careful, never hurt the people that love you, because you only hurt yourself more in the process.
I would remind her of the lesson my grandfather taught me- that the difference between stubbornness and persistence is stupidity. And that we do not see things as they are but as WE are so be careful on how quick you are to give our opinion.
And whenever she feels like she just wants to give up I will whisper in her ear- you were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.
And when she begins to go through the self-centered teen stage that all go through, I will make her stop and step outside every once and a while to look up the stars because you begin to look at this world differently when you realize just how small and just how big this world really is.
And she’ll know to be careful to not settle into “comfortable”. That when she finds herself knowing her own routine and guessing her own actions The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
And- important life lesson dear! Always be yourself… because if you begin to water yourself down to please people, or to fit in, the freedom that being exclusively who you are, is diminished. So never grow a wishbone daughter, where your backbone ought be- love the person you’ve become, you fought hard to become her.
And when she comes crying to me with a broken heart I will remind her that, someone who is worthy of your love will never put you in a situation where you feel you must sacrifice your dignity, your integrity, or your self-worth to be with them and yes, sometimes you just gotta be your own hero and save your own little heart, because sometimes, the people you can’t imagine living without, can actually live without you. But don’t worry, bebe someday, your going to meet a guy and he is going to look at you with a light in his eyes you’ve never seen. He’ll look at you like you’re everything his been looking for his entire lives. Wait for it.
And on hot summer nigh,t as I coheres into spending time with me rather then her cell phone or friends, I will sigh into her hair, do you know what your mama knows? Nothing really. But I’ve learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man, sweetie, is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear. And when I was feeling low, I would look in the mirror and do you know what I realized …wow! after all those hurts, scars, and bruises, after all of those trails, I really made it through. I did it, I survived that which was supposed to kill me. So I straightened my crown…and walked away like a boss.
And when she comes to be with complaints about her hair, face, or weight I’ll tell her it doesn’t make sense to call yourself ugly because you don’t really see yourself. Sleeping in bed, curled up silent with your chest rising and falling in its own special rhythm. You don’t see yourself reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing and you don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care in your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when your laughing and smiling and your happiness is leaking out of you, if you did, you would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are. That your beauty is like the ocean, pretty enough on the surface but dive down into your depths you’ll find a beauty most people never see.
And when life begins to scare her, like life tends to do to most- I will come up behind with a clap on the back to repeat that, Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower then you have ever been, to stand taller then you ever were.
And of course she will learn the hard way, no matter how many times I tell her, sometimes you have to accept that things will never go back to the way they used to be, but two things will define you- Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
Remember chio-chan, People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Its okay to be angry, but its never okay to be cruel.
When the tough desecions come and life if offering you a million choices -don’t be afraid to mess up, because Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer- so, be a glow stick, sometimes you need to break before you shine.
