Girls

We can do hard things.

We can push through heartbreak,

The tears of feeling like we're not wanted,

Like we're not good enough,

We can splash in them.

We can laugh and cry in the same breath

We can dance in the rain

Of tomorrow's dreams,

We can punch waves and punch walls and push through

Through how we were defined by the people before us

We can become us

Come into ourselves

With each other as our backup.

We can hide in the shadows

And wade in the shallows

And glitter like the sun

Like stars

Like fire

Because we can

We can do it all

We are all so beautiful

And we can be anything we want in this shiny broken world

The destruction of yesterday rebuilding tomorrow

We can be us,

Unapologetically, 

We know that there is no "should" 

Even if sometimes we think there is

We feel

We love

We make mistakes

We are human

We are brilliant

And anyone who wouldn't want us

Is not worth the effort

Even if our hearts

Think they know better

Even if

Crush turns to obsession

Past the shattering rejection of what once was

We can be us

We can move forward

Girls

We can do hard things.