Untitled, Rupi Kaur (2014)

my

issue

with

what

they

consider

beautiful

is

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