don't call me pretty.
don't even call me beautiful.
because truly, i don't want to hear it.
i am more than a physical appearance. i am a soul flooded with a million words trapped inside a vocal cord box that screeches with silence. i am a woman with a mind that replenishes with truth and kindness. i am a daughter to a God that downpours an abundant amount of love into my veins that radiates a mixture of pure joy and brokenness. i am more than a body - i am exalting with grace to express gratitude towards this life. i am made with a heart that beats so powerfully against my rib cage that it explodes with passion and flames for mother nature. i am made up of a fierce number of atoms that bind my flesh together. i am a woven piece in an effort to knit my crocheted thoughts together. i trace my mind so profoundly that it's hard to imagine my flesh enclosing around my thoughts.
call me extravagant , marvelous even. make me known for the horizons that my mind seeks. acknowledge the endless amount of hours i have graciously spent pouring time to know the woman i am. encounter me like a book ; read and ponder each page. don't skim the letters upon my skin. deeply envision the fairy tales that swim in the ocean of my mind. seep your wisdom into my soul and i will welcome you into my house of fragile thoughts.
i was a paintbrush - my life a canvas as pure as white - but through a droplet of growth in my chalice ; i created a masterpiece built with the most beautiful strokes and found me, my bristles, right in the middle. i am a creature flourishing and blossoming through plentiful colors that splash inside my body. i am rushing blue inside a skeleton that seeps fire red in my skin. i am the sunset burning to feed you the last ounce of heat onto your sun kissed body. i am swallowed by the ocean every night and am met with the moon and stars on the other side. encrusted inside of my bones lies the most tender and vulnerable part of me. design your lips to create an artwork of love for the world to see. desire my heart, not my flesh. simply dive deeper into my ocean. for that, you will have encountered the most beautiful thing you have ever seen about a person...
maybe even a piece of me , my inner beauty.