This is a poem for monster girls
Who have no stars in their skin
Only fire and iron and scales
For the girls who walked alone
Into forests and into nights
Deep and dark and endless
In their everlasting loneliness
For the girls who didn't emerge
With a crown of gold or a prince
Instead remained admist the trees
And reformed themselves anew
For the girls who hid in their beds
Afraid of the monsters lurking near
Who dreamed of slaying the dragon
Only to find the dragon lives within
For the girls who aren't your princesses
The girls who won't be anyone's queen
Who will never have a crown or throne
And nobody to write their stories down
This is for the girls you don't know
And for all the girls you will know
Who learn to breathe fire over mist
