this is for the dangerous nights when you are scared to be called beautiful:
darling aphrodite, I am sorry for all the times you have been called out as an object of another's amusement and the countless times you will be treated like one I know, I know, it isn't fair and if I could, I would stand by your side forever to protect you from the monsters with cruel human faces
but right now, all I can do is remind you that you are worth ten thousand times more than ignoring catcalls in darkened alleys planning escape routes on the way to the car gripping pepper spray because your life depends on it fearing for your safety every time you walk out the door
because my dear, you are the buck that will impale him if he dares to make a wrong move sweet thing, you are the poison in his veins that will take him down from the inside out hot stuff, you are the inferno that will consume his rotten soul and dance on the ashes **** lady, you are the epitome of what it means to be the female ***: strong and clever and indestructible
but baby, I also know how hard it is keep smiling especially when rest won't come and everything feels wrong and you are surrounded by people but feel completely utterly alone
so this is also for the lonely mornings when you wish you could call yourself beautiful:*
darling aphrodite, who convinced you that your worth was only as deep as the fragile shell that traps your soul? who taught you to focus on the color of your eyes rather than the quiet determination inside, the glow of your hair rather than incomparable mind underneath, the curve of your lips rather than the powerful voice behind, the smoothness of your skin rather than the goddess within? who decided that, despite the sturdiness of your fist and the unquenchable fire in your chest, the only thing you'd be useful for was to look pretty?
my love, although I know you can sometimes feel pretty scared of failing, pretty sad at night when you can't fall asleep at 2am, pretty disappointed by the ones who left without looking back,
you are also pretty strong pretty intelligent pretty important pretty loved pretty incredible
and if there is one thing you take from this, I hope it is that you were made for many reasons: to dance and paint galaxies and wish on shooting stars and love more deeply than anyone ever thought possible but the one thing you have never been and were never meant to be is *just pretty