Amarria's Poem: Amarria

Amarria,

I admire you.

But you have your flaws,

and you aren’t even close to perfect,

but I still love you.

You have your strengths,

and you have your weaknesses,

but I accept that.

You have dreams as big as the sky.

but i know that you won’t reach them,

unless you push yourself further.

You're beautiful

and carry yourself well in that light brown skin of yours,

But remember, good  looks won’t get you anywhere in life.

Your intelligent

and could solve any problem handed to you,

just learn to think things through a bit more.

I  know that you feel alone

you feel like you're drowning but no one's around to save you

but that’s how it is in the real word,

all you can count on is yourself.

  I've seen your tears rush down your face

      and I know that you can’t control it,

but keep crying and you will drown in that salty lake you're creating.

Your tough.

you know how to keep a wall up when good times turn bad.

but if you don’t fix the cracks in that wall,

it will fall and you're going to crumble with it.

You hide.

you try to escape reality

but just know, you can’t hide from everything.

your bedroom door is more transparent than you think it is.

Your unpredictable

you can go off at any moment like a bull.

just... try not go off at the wrong time.

You're angry.

mad at the world and everything bad that it's done to you

just remember, you've done yourself wrong a few times as well.

I know that you're lost

lost without the one woman in your life that treated you just as your mother does

just remember, one day you’ll die too and your grandchild will feel the same way.

You're stuck

stuck knowing that the man who you're supposed to look up to,

left you for his new wife

just remember, don’t ever love anyone more than they love you.

Amarria,

You're afraid.

You're afraid that you won’t be accepted.

You're afraid that people will judge you.

You're afraid that sharing this part of your identity makes you weak.

But now they know.