Beautiful

The following poem was written by a 9th grade female student, at the school where I teach, for our recent student-written drama production.

Beautiful

I’d like to think that every girl is beautiful, right?

Not Hollywood glamorous

tweak this that and the other part pretty

Just simply divine

Like fine works of art

irreplaceable

Never quite the same; no ones interchangeable

And those critic reviews that limit you to your aesthetic appeal

Just don't get it

Beauty in the sense that

Beneath those layers of oily curly light dark tight loose

awkward graceful out on a limb external strokes and colors

There's something sweet inside every girl that

nobody could ever match or challenge

We are Leonardo Davinci's Mona Lisa's

We are Edgar Degas' little dancers

We are Maya Angelous' Phenomenal Women

We are beautiful 

How amazing is that? I had to share. Happy Friday!