What I want you to see
Location
Her eyes
Grass and leaves and earth
Lily pads and ice and sea
Her hair
Light and sand and gold
Sun and glimmer and fire
Her smile
Small and fragile and soft
Tainted and ambiguous and hurt
Her beauty
Destined and longing and free
Fearsome and slow and wavering
Her love
Unwritten
And this is what I wanted you to see
A girl with so much and so little
A slut and a prude
A loser and a queen
Because what the TV didn't show us
Awoke in me
I realized my freedom
In a world without screens
And what our mothers didn't warn us about
I saw in the idea of you
A gentle soul with more than
A strong embrace to claim me
I wanted you for so long
I waited for you to see
The broken girl in that picture
And see her strength
Because the light told her
It didn't want her
But she knew better
Than to let her headaches get her down
So now she is no longer waiting
To find you
She fell in love with the search
But found a stone to throw
And her flesh didn't seem so wrong
Nor her mind daunting
Or her expression flawed
She found the light again
And she no longer needs you