dear future daughter dear future daughter

Number Three:

When I was younger, my mother used to tell me about the sunshine girl and the moon boy

The girl would rule over the day spinning worlds of gold and drops of dew

And though she longed to sit on her throne in the sky, She loved the boy so much that every evening she died just a little to let him shine

He would run up on the horizon

And she would sink below the mountain

But eventually, this game of race became an unrelenting chase as the moon hunted the sun

He stole her light and in the warmth of his embrace, the sunshine girl was no more

Submitted by Megan Steele

All of this is to say the world is going to ignore you and abuse you

They will not look you in the eyes for fear that you shine too bright They will tell you, you are not worthy of your place in the sky

That you are too harsh, too forthright, too strong, too demanding, That you will never be enough

To that, I say this:

All of the darkness in the entire galaxy cannot put out the light of a single candle, And so my dear sunshine girl

How could they ever extinguish you?

I hope there comes a day that I don’t have to tell you this

A day where you don’t have to fight to be heard or ashamed of your strength

A day where you can be unafraid to walk the paths of the forest alone

But for now, I will settle for this...

Dear my future daughter and to all the young girls who sit in the stands: You have stardust mixed in your veins

You are made of the cosmos and the galaxies

Stars sing your praise as you cultivate life

Don't let anyone steal your light