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Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
You want to steal
My light
You want to ******
My thoughts
You want to impregnate
My innocence
With your ******* children
You want to torture
My soul
You want me
All to yourself
Lock me up
Throw away the key
You believe
I was made
Just for you
To use
To control
To manipulate
But
I refuse
I refuse to hide
To stay silent
To bow down
You don't have power
Over me
You want to strike me down
Vanquish my hopes
My dreams
But I realized
You're the coward
You actually believe
You have to beat me
Into submission
You don't want me to leave
You all alone
But I've got news for you
I refuse
To be controlled
To be powerless
I refuse
To be beat
To be *****
To be yours
All yours
I am me
Unique
Wonderful
Beautiful
I am not
Your slave
So don't expect me to stay
To love you
You don't deserve me
I refuse
To stay
With you
Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
Cinderella
Works all day
Crys all night
For a prince
To save her
Snow White
Asleep with the dwarfs
Dreams of a prince
To kiss her
Good morning
Reponzel
High in the tower
Grows out her hair
For the prince
All around the world
Girls wait to be saved
By a prince
Not realizing
They can save themselves
They are strong
They are beautiful
They don't need a prince
To rescue them
But
How would they know that?
Hardworking Cinderella
Couldn't stand up for herself
Trusting Snow White
Needed a prince to wake up
Patient reponzel
Couldn't escape
Without a man
Girls are taught
They need a man
They can't survive
They are useless
Worthless
Without a man
It's no wonder
Girls reduce themselves to nothing
For an undeserving man
All because
We are conditioned
All around us
All we hear
Too fat, too thin
Too short, too tall
Too many wrinkles
Too many freckles
Too many pimples
Not perfect enough
You are only perfect
If you have a man
They objectify us
And we let them
But worse
We objectify ourselves
Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
Smoke rising
Fire blazing
A beautiful sight
No one can look away
Eyes watering
From the heat
Me and you
Trapped inside
But we don't want to leave
Just hold each other
Tight
We kiss
One last time
Before the flames take us
Just me and you
In this burning house
We'll die together
Like we dreamed
Our ashes mixed
A part of me
With you
And a part of you
With me
Forever
This burning house
Will keep us together
In death
Like we were
In life
We stayed together
In our own
Burning house
We chose
Together
It's only fit
For us
To go up in flames
In this burning house
Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
These shadows
All around me
Are now my life
My depressing life
My life
Is one big shadow
Covering me up
Surrounding me
Suffocating me
Killing me
I will die here
And I'm okay
With that now
I have learned
To accept it
But what I don't accept
Is that this shadow
Is killing my family
My loved ones
My friends
My God
This shadow
Seems to be
Everywhere
Nothing I can do
No where to run
It shouldn't matter
That I am a
Jew
Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
Sticky sweet smell
Sweat
Manuror
Hay
So soothing sound
Flies buzzing
Hooves thumping
The tickling touch
Little hairs on skin
Sloppy wet tongue
Gross!
Gently giggling
At the sweet silliness
Of the moment
Beautiful horses
Waiting wonderingly
At what today brings
Apples?
Carrots?
Oats?
But what they will never know
Is that they are
My only safe haven
Left
Marie Lancaster Jun 2016
Stress eats at me
Old monsters
Roar to life
Bad habits broken
Reawakens
Eyes wet with
Tears unshed
Hands shake
Bad thoughts resurface
Triggers cut deep
Be calm
Be quiet
Be a good girl
Don't make a sound
Stress tearing me up inside
Trying to make me insane
I know I can cope
The monsters
Stay dead
Bad habits remain broken
Bad thoughts trampled
Triggers still cut
But I won't scar
I may struggle
But I won't drown
Life is hard
I can do hard things
I am
An overcomer
Marie Lancaster Mar 2016
one day
i'll fly away
leave this place
far away
one day
i'll ignite this world
burning your soul
one day
i'll be brave
enough to walk away
from you
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