Book by rupi kaur
***I read this incredible book this week and I fell I love with it. I enjoyed the simplicity of the words and the depths of feelings that they bring. I enjoyed how sharp they expose the pains, yet soothes. I love how empowered I felt as a woman from the words from the pages of those book. I do not know how a book could speak so loudly to someone in such simple words. I felt exposed and then put together once again just from reading. I thought you might also enjoy the book, so I brought a few excerpts out from it with the hope that this would endear you to get your copies and have a full feel of what I am feeling***
the first boy that kissed me
held my shoulders down
like the handlebars of
the first bicycle
he ever rode
i was five
he had the smell of
starvation on his lips
which he picked up from
his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.
he was supposed to be
the first male love of your life
you still search for him
everywhere
– father
every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you
– to fathers with daughters
the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic
when my mother was pregnant
with her second child i was four
i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how
my mother had gotten so big in such little time
my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and
said the closest thing to god on this earth
is a woman’s body it’s where life comes from
and to have a grown man tell me something
so powerful at such a young age
changed me to see the entire universe
rested at my mother’s feet
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no
it won’t
be love at
first sight when
we meet it’ll be love
at first remembrance cause
i’ve seen you in my mother’s eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i’d want to raise my son to be like
what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i’ve ever had
in human form
he only whispers i love you
as he slips his hands
down the waistband
of your pants
this is where you must
understand the difference
between want and need
you may want that boy
but you certainly
don’t need him
i didn’t leave because
i stopped loving you
i left because the longer
i stayed the less
i loved myself
you must enter a relationship
with yourself
before anyone else
if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise
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