I want to be described like Darcy
Describes Elizabeth Bennett,
Like Gatsby describes Daisy,
Like art,
Like Literature.
Beautiful scripted words.
I want someone to romanticize my
imperfections,
Like Pablo Neruda sculpts the image
of his love with lines of poetry.
I want someone to turn me into
a single sentence,
One single phrase that will reach in
and grip the heart of whoever reads it.
I'm tired of effortless compliments,
I don't want to hear that I am
somehow a temperature,
I don't want anyone to describe me
the same way they described the one
before me,
the same way they will describe the
one after me.
I don't think I am more,
but I want their words to paint me
as more.
I want to be created by ink,
molded by their pen and their language.
I just want to be described like I am something,
Someone to be remembered,
Someone worth writing about.
- jennifer a
