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 they ask you what you weigh

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

Instead, simply tell them the truth,

tell them how you

weigh whole universes

and storms and scars and stories too.