Heroine

What does it mean
to lose something you never had?

We place so much faith in fairy tales
they're bred in our brains
from about week two

Show me a girl who
can't place themselves in one,
be it as sorceress or heroine.

A promise no one tells us can't
be kept by our desire
to make it so

Knowing, now, that you were never what you thought
doesn't ease the blow
only makes the farce much fiercer

Because
"what could I have done differently?"
nothing
just nothing
predestined
predetermined
either way, out of my control.

January 2007