This is a letter to that girl in 1st Grade, who told me I would never amount to anything, because I was getting better grades than her.
This is for those girls in 2nd Grade, who bullied me to the point of not wanting to go to school anymore, because I spoke better English than all of them combined.
This is for those girls in 4th and 5th Grade, who made me lose my confidence, who alienated me, who made me have no friends, because someone I trusted egged them on, because she was threatened that I would grab her ever-so-smart crown.
This is for that one girl in high school who said my curls looked like pubic hair, the girl who always shouted EWWWW at me in the hallways, the girl who made me cry. This is for her friends, too; the ones who would gang up on me and make me want to kill myself because, damn, I felt THAT small.
This is for that girl who told me I was too dark-skinned to be pretty, because "OMG, why are you so dark, did you go to the beach?"
NO, BITCH. BUT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU DID.
Sorry, lost myself there. Anyway.
This is for all you bullies, all you bitches, all you insecure motherfuckers in my life.
This is for the girl who once told me I was never going to be pretty enough to have a man even consider being in a relationship with me.
This is for everyone who made it hard to love myself.
Because, you know what?
I realised so many things because of your negativity.
I am not pretty, I never was. I am not THAT smart, either.
I am BEAUTIFUL, I am DIVINE, I am BEYOND YOUR EXPECTATIONS, beyond your capacity to comprehend, I am CELESTIAL.
I am ME, and I have discovered, I am all I need to be.
And you all, I realise now, were just passing little specks of dirt that got caught in my eyes and blurred my vision.
