This Is About My Own Some Day Daughter

This is about my own some day daughter.
When you approach me,
already stung-stayed with insecurity,
begging “Mom, will I be pretty?”
I will wipe that question from your mouth
like cheap lipstick and answer,
No! The word pretty is unworthy of
everything you will be, and no child of mine
will be contained in five letters.

“You will be pretty intelligent,
pretty creative, pretty amazing.
But you will never be merely… ‘pretty’.”

– Kate Makkai

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