5 beautiful verses By Nikita Gill:


#1:

The monsters were never

under my bed.

Because the monsters

were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,

for no monsters I see.

Because all this time

the monster has been me.”


#2:

Fall in love with someone

who tastes like adventure

but looks like

the calm, beautiful morning

after a terrible storm”


#3:

Tell your daughters how you love your body.

Tell them how they must love theirs.


Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves—

from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs,

whether there is a little of them or a lot,

whether freckles cover their face or not,

whether their curves are plentiful or slim,

whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short.


Tell them how they inherited

their ancestors, souls in their smiles,

that their eyes carry countries

that breathed life into history,

that the swing of their hips

does not determine their destiny.


Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued.

Tell them every woman’s body is beautiful

because every woman’s soul is unique.


#4:

she was the kind of girl

who was a chaos of contradictions

from one second to the next,

for her mind was never free.


#5:

They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented - there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.