Untitled, Rupi Kaur (2014)

my
issue
with
what
they
consider
beautiful

is
their
concept
of
beauty

centers
around
excluding
people

i
find
hair
beautiful

when
a
woman
wears
it

like
a
garden
on
her
skin

that
is
the
definition
of
beauty

big
hooked
noses

pointing
upward
to
the
sky

like
they're
rising
to
the
occasion

skin
the
color
of
earth

my
ancestors
planted
crops
on

to
feed
a
lineage
of
women
with

thighs
thick
as
tree
trunks

eyes
like
almonds

deeply
hooded
with
conviction

the
rivers
of
punjab

flow
through
my
bloodstream
so

don't
tell
me
my
women

aren't
as
beautiful

as
the
ones
in

your
country