Sarah Kay " If I Should Have a Daughter"

 Sarah Kay : "If I Should Have a  Daughter "
If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B, because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. 
And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands, so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, "Oh, I know that like the back of my hand." 
And she's going to learn that this life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. 
But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. 
There is hurt here that cannot be fixed by Band-Aids or poetry. 
So the first time she realizes that Wonder Woman isn't coming, I'll make sure she knows she doesn't have to wear the cape all by herself.
Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. 
Believe me, I've tried. "And, baby," I'll tell her, don't keep your nose up in the air like that. I know that trick; I've done it a million times. You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house, so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place, to see if you can change him." 
But I know she will anyway, so instead I'll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boots nearby, because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can't fix. 
Okay, there's a few heartbreaks that chocolate can't fix. 
But that's what the rain boots are for. 
Because rain will wash away everything, if you let it. 
I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind, because that's the way my mom taught me. 
That there'll be days like this. 
♫ There'll be days like this, my momma said. ♫ 
When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment. 
And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you. 
Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's swept away. 
You will put the wind in winsome, lose some. 
You will put the star in starting over, and over. 
And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life. 
And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn naive.
But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. 
It can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it. 
"Baby," I'll tell her, "remember, your mama is a worrier, and your papa is a warrior, and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more." 
Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things. 
And always apologize when you've done something wrong. 
But don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. 
Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing. 
And when they finally hand you heartache, when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.



Response: 
         Out of all the poems/ sonnets we read and listened to i have chosen this one because i thought that this poem by Sarah Kay was the one and only that i understood well enough that i know what the author wanted to say to the world.  She wanted to  explain how people should be treated and if they want something that should have it. In this poem Sarah Kay has shown and expressed her voice and feelings.Like the way  she had disagreed with herself that chocolate cant fix a few heartbreaks but rain boots can.And also the part where she had said you will put the wind in winsome, lose some and you will put the star in starting over, and over. This poem really showed what poems should show. It showed feelings, a voice, and most of all what the world should be like and what the world really means.
        This poem , i know most people would say was weird and didn't mean anything. But if you read it over and over again you could really connect to what it has to say.This poem has many quotes that i look foreword to spread because they make people feel good or because they make people feel what Sarah Kay felt when writing this. Courageous.Ready for what the world has for her.This poem is all about how she has no terrified feelings for what the world has to offer.She has no terrified feelings for what the future has to say. She has an answer to everything and everyone in the world.Sarah Kay is one of the writers i look up to not only because she has good poems that i can connect to but she has the answers to the scariest things in life. The point where reality takes over and your imagination has to end. 
        One of the favorite sayings that Sarah Kay mentioned in this poem is " When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment." because first of all it has lots of sayings and meanings to it like how when you want to go and save the future and the people in the future they are the ones holding you back.  I  really thought many people could connect to this quote like i can: for example when i was younger i had wanted to be a designer and i had my sewing machine and everything but my friends and family had doubted me and never wanted me to move on with my life and my future.
        One other saying and Quote from this poem that had caught my eye was this one :
"Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things. 
And always apologize when you've done something wrong. 
But don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. 
Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing."
This quote had caught my eye because this is one nice thing that i would always say in my mind when i was in doubt or when i was feeling sad and terrified of what the world had to say about me. It would be one of the many things that would keep me out of trouble and still happy with myself. I would always think if you have such an amazing voice why hide it , and if you have such amazing eyes don't stop looking and shining, but if you had done something wrong to hurt someone you shall make it right with them.
       This poem by  Sarah Kay has inspired me and has shown me the true meaning of what the world means to everyone and how wonderful life would be if you only believein yourself not what other people think about you.