Weep

By Sophia M

I stand as a woman

Weep as a girl

To a world that is none the wiser

Fragile, polished 

Pristine and yours 

Charmed by this divisor 

What is worse than a girl? 

What had to be done 

For our blood to be tarnished and tainted 

Our cheeks must be flushed

Our hands must be dainty 

And our smiles are pristinely painted

Yes, I’m a rose

Perfect and fair 

Brush acid on my petals

 Glaze them with care

I smile as I shrivel

My beauty, my worth

Burning to shreds 

Like the stars, like the Earth 

I will smile if you look at me

 Smile if you see 

Before I wilt away

I may not be gone

But I know where it ends

When I make excuses for you, 

Your thoughts, your friends 

You’d do the same as them 

If you thought I wouldn’t know

I don’t know where it’d stop

But I know where I’d go

Dead as a ghost town, dead as the ashes 

Dead as my sisters who rewrote the passage 

I will have done nothing, complying to you

If it’s my will you want, it’s mine to use