She wore them all her life
A stubborn mind,
A silly heart
Knowing not what they want
Fooled herself to believe
In everything but her
She bought dreams
Even those that she never had
Her mind stoked fears
Of things, of people, and of self
For she might lose the race
To prove herself
Made her a wife, a mother, a woman
But lost the girl within
Time slipped and aged her too
A body, but the soul not to be seen
She waited, for a day would come
And she would find the time
To redeem what she had lost
In the secret corners of her heart
She would wake up
As if from the ashes
Giving birth to a new self
For her old dreams to live
She would leap
And find courage
In hidden corners of her heart
Where she'd placed it and lost
She would let the woman live
But the girl would be born too
Once again, and she'd do the things
That a woman was told not to.