Not Your Conquest

There is no distress

In this damsel

I am not the conquest

In the grand adventure of your story

In fact,

I don’t even want to be a part of your fairytale

I have written one of my own

This time,

This time I get to be the hero.

This time I can save myself

I am no longer

The pot of gold at the end of your rainbow

The reward for your long journey

I am not your prize

Your princess must be in another castle

I am not a checkpoint in your game

Because I,

I am not waiting for you to

Bring me my glass slipper

I left it purpose

How am I supposed to run

When I am walking on eggshells

I do not need you to save me

From my wretched family

In fact

I’m pretty wretched myself

That magical kiss that will wake me up

Is an invasion of my privacy,

I never gave you permission

I don’t want a kiss that will make me more like you

I am beautiful the way that I am

I can be beauty and as strong as a beast

I might live alone in a tower but I am not waiting for a knight

I climbed up here myself

My fingers bled as I clung to brick after brick

Saving my own life

So when you say

‘Because I am a prince, you are my princess and you have to act like it.’

I am going to laugh

You might be a prince

But I am not a princess

I am The Queen

I write my own book

So you can have your white horse

I’ll be riding away on my dragon.