How dare you tell me 'I am not like most girls,'
when those 'girls' you refer to
are my sisters and mothers, my friends,
the very solace and the kind… - Nikita Gill
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How dare you tell me 'I am not like most girls,' when those 'girls' you refer to are my sisters and mothers, my friends, the very solace and the kindness I have sought when the worst things in my life have happened?
How dare you assume I should take that as a compliment, and beam at you like it is praise when you are alienating me from the very core of my proudly female being?
There are a thousand ways to tell me you love me, and making my sisters small to make me big isn't one of them.
Tell me you love me, but not because I am different.
Nikita Gill (born 20 June 1987) is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England. She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry. Gill uses social media to engage her audience and she has over 650,000 followers on Instagram, one of the most popular poets on the platform.
Trauma isn’t going to win today. Remember how Daphne turned into the laurel tree? This is what you must do too. Form your own roots, feed from the earth that still loves you. Remember how.
You smell of death. Everything about you is an endless goodbye
A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?
