Raise a daughter to be everything you've feared because often, not conquering our fears is what we regret when the memories fade and our bones become too brittle. But don't you dare hold it against her when she becomes all that you fear. Instead, tell her how she has your soul and the souls of a hundred witches who burned so that she could keep her magic.
Raise your son to be the sun and not a shadow that demands a woman's brightness. It is one of the only things you will ever teach him right.
Tell him how his bravery brought the earth to its knees, and how it's in his spirit to be greatness. Tell him it's okay to cry, that there's no shame in failure.
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A Change Of Heart
PoetryHealing isn't the easiest thing for me to do. I've tried to find it in between pages and rib cages. In loud rooms and the quiet of racing heartbeats. In poetry and rage. In that space between childhood and growing pains. In apologies that I refuse t...
