Title: A Thousand Words

If I could describe,
How it makes me feel.
When
Someone says to me.
You Can't do that
You're a girl.

I would say it hurts.

Then I'd take a walk.

Because speaking
Never seems to work.
When all we do is
Talk Talk Talk.

Speeches
are
not
freedom.

Voices are
just birds.
It's our actions that speak for us.
But
I'm still made

Of a thousand
Words.

Once Upon a time
Everyone had fire.
Passion would engulf us.
Now
The stakes
Are growing higher.

Ever higher.

Girls
Are all alone.

Yet,
Completely free.

Submerged
In our

Corrupt Society

Today's girls are forced to see their
Very own
Reality.

Like a mirror
Warped
With time.
It seems the same.
An endless rhyme.

I stare at my reflection
And shatter through the glass.

I whisper of rejection.

But my confidence will never last.

I pull my hair and
Twist my mouth,
Into
A plastered Smile

When really on the inside.

I hold a smirking scowl.

When
Night comes I learn to weep.
My own truths I cannot keep.
If I were to say what's right.

My friends would laugh

My peers would fight.

Will I ever get the chance
To dream away my pain.
I don't know
but
Until then
I'll always be the same.

If there was a bridge to Normal.
I'd refuse to cross it.

If I had a choice of worlds.
I'd pick a different topic.

Once Upon a Time.

We knew how to fight.
Now
All that we can do.
Is run from fire
and
take flight.

Everyone creates their bonds,
Tight and ever stretching.

We all share a chain locked tight.
Growing longer,
Never stopping.

Today's girls are worth the tears.
We're worth the love and worth the years.

I am worth the lonely days.
The greying Sky
The Endless Waves.

I am made of a thousand words
Some are sharp
And
Some will burn.

I could either cross the bridge
Or jump off the edge
And learn to swim.

My screams are loud
The night is dim.

The shattered glass
That lies within.