Not Your Conquest
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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.