Category: Poetry

Not a Damsel in Distress (poem)

I will not stay asleep
nor be idle for a hundred years
I will not buckle to panic
when I feel the wolf is near

"Drink me,"
the bottle says
"let me wrap you in my embrace
let me curl up in your veins

I’ll never be
your definition of fun
I’m not one for parties
and I’m not someone

“Here,”
I said
my child palms showing you
the things I loved
the things that shook my heart more alive

"Open your coat,"
you whisper to me