WHAT I WEIGH

WHAT I WEIGH

I weigh the sea, 

I weigh the storm,

I weigh a thousand stories long.

I weigh my mother's fortitude and my father's eyes, 

I weigh the way they look at me with pride,

I weigh strength and fearless and the warrior in me.

I weigh all the pain and trauma that made me see

that I have more galaxies inside me than tragedies.

We all weigh joys and darkness and goodness and sin;

you see, we are infinite within this skin we are in.

So when you are asked what you weigh

you don't need to look down at any scale.

Instead simply tell the truth:

tell everyone how you

weigh whole universes

and storms and scars and stories too.

@Nikita Gill from These are the Words. Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice, MacMillan 2022