Daughter.

“I am 26 and I am a daughter

And I wonder how differently you feel

Because when I am at the dinner table

I think I make houses that aren’t really mine

Like how I have given so much to this one and then I have to leave

Yet I know how exactly I would make your house better with me

As women somehow that’s our biggest catastrophe

How we spend so much time fixing things even though none of it is really ours and we still foresee

How no one will remember I was the one who raised my Bolt

How I thought of the kitchen wallpaper and the living room glow

How my mother looks for me when she has an outfit to show

How dad tries a new recipe and I am the first to know

How big brother says “this person fucked me up at work lets take a walk, come on let’s go”

How I will leave it all behind for my dear beau

That’s the thing about us women I guess

We don’t need a fortress

My Tay Tay said all’s fair in love and poetry

But love

Women are the real key

Because we make home wherever we are and go

Maybe love and sacrifice is all we will ever know

And like I always say

I am not complaining

Not even a bit

I am just saying this is me and this is what it is

I just hope you know

Sometimes I will lose perspective

I will tell you

How complicated all of this is

But in those moments love me

Hug me

And tell me

This is the beauty of womanhood isn’t it?”