What Never to Tell Your Daughters

by Shikha S. Lamba

Paint landscapes with compromise.

Be strong enough to sit with grief.

Melancholy will only get you so far.

Acceptability and surrender will be the foundations

keeping your life stable. Life can be beautiful,

if you learn to stretch the meaning of beauty into denial.

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Shikha is a jewelry designer & poet living in Hong Kong. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of an online magazine, Coffee and Conversations. Born in New Delhi, even as a child Shikha was always inspired by all things creative, be it language, photography or art.