Reasons

I never really thought I was beautiful

but I thought about it

and I think I could try to be beautiful 

or really just believe it. I think I'm starting to believe it

I'm starting to believe that list I wrote.

That all these little things might actually make me beautiful

Reasons I'm beautiful

• little freckles
• really big teeth
• all the books I've read
• the books I've written
• all my favorite quotes
• my laugh that's way too loud and a little bizarre
• my extreme ambition
• the silver crosses I wear
• phone calls with my best friend
• the way I dance
• blind dedication 
• all my youthful cyncism
• the way I feel in water
• brown eyes
• long toes
• perpetually chapped lips