Jul 2019
a little girl was raised by wolves.
they taught her to be fierce, loud and brave
how to sing to the midnight moon
and withhold no part of herself.
and even when her body changed,
they still treated her as one of them.
now she feels beautiful
in basketball shorts and a sports bra
and knows how to speak her mind
and play and fight and swear and laugh
and sing to the midnight moon.
and she loves herself
just as she is:
a wolf in a woman’s body.
they taught her to be fierce, loud and brave
how to sing to the midnight moon
and withhold no part of herself.
and even when her body changed,
they still treated her as one of them.
now she feels beautiful
in basketball shorts and a sports bra
and knows how to speak her mind
and play and fight and swear and laugh
and sing to the midnight moon.
and she loves herself
just as she is:
a wolf in a woman’s body.
you can interpret this however you want to, but for me, it's a metaphor for the empowerment that comes when men treat girls the same way they treat boys (except for the toxic masculinity part) and don't expect girls to "grow up" in the sense of becoming *** objects when they hit puberty.
