Spells spoken in her ear
God's word carved in her soul
Fairy dust sparkling in her eyes
It's no wonder her heart couldn't speak
as she'd already been rendered
deaf, dumb, and blind
Never taught to think
Trained to obey
A woman's body with a child brain
a stunted emotional range
and a Disney view on romance
The ugly duckling
she'd open her heart and legs for anyone
believing attention meant he saw the swan inside
hoping for an open heart in return
There were of course
no Princes
only
empty Charming
As she rarely left her childhood home
which had transformed to her middle-aged dungeon
there were only a few
but it does not take many to empty someone
who didn't realize she wasn't whole
She woke herself up just after the half century mark
Time was most definitely not her friend
Her thoughts
Her love
Her humanity
So much work undone
So few days ahead
With her body beginning its inevitable change as midnight approached
energy must be focused and well spent
No prayers
No magic
No societal accepted nonsense
Just reality
The honest pain
in finding
in creating
the one thing too long left uncreated
buried under the planted poison beliefs that had strangled her
season over season
The one thing she should've been loving all along
Herself
February 26, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 5 of 100
Image of clock by Qilmy, used without permission, with no credit taken, no profit made, and no offense intended.
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