Notes to my future daughter.

You are not as fat
as those other girls
make you believe.

That boy will
never, ever
be speaking the truth. 

You are so
very
beautiful.

Don’t let the world
make you hard.
Stay soft, be soft,
don’t let my own
hardness with my
own mother change
how soft we can be
with each other.

You are so good
and I am jealous
of how pure your
soul is and can
stay.