Warrior Princess
Bang away at life
The warrior princess fights
Battles of defenses
Held up in corrugated fences
Trapped in incongruent lies
that wear away at her disguise
she feels the web
she feels the tides
She feels the weakness
In storied lives
What tale they tell her
What words convince her
Hand over the heart
Lie silent in the dark
And cry unprincess tears
of the warrior's fear.
Author's Notes/Comments:
For Earl: 2 plus years of battling life alone after the death of my s.o. has finally wore me down.
This poem has led me in two directions at the end....Is she a a little girl lying in the dark with her hands over her heart crying becasue shes having to wear big girl pants and she's in reality (unprincess) scared even as a man would be.
Or Is she being manipulated by men/society to hand over her heart( soul money love idenity) to a man and lie silently in the dark (unnoticed unacknowledged repressed) and cry unprincess (reality not fantasy) tears of real life dangers. This is where I want it to go...but a note says victims are boring...She's not a victim but a representation of inequality where a princess warrior is still not good enough ad can be brought down my a lie a web wa weekness a tale...
