"Oh god, give me girl poems–that raw hunger on the edge of adulthoodwhere heartbreak always hurts..."

“Oh god, give me girl poems–

that raw hunger on the edge of adulthood

where heartbreak always hurts the most.

Give me the battered, broken toothed words

of the ones who were spoon-fed fairy tales

until they felt sick with them.

I want the ones whose bellies were bloated

with too many happily-ever-afters,

but who didn’t know anything different:

the ones rewriting themselves into

the knight

or the dragon

trying so desperately to turn that story

into something they could still relate to.

Give me the ones who became

princesses on their own terms–

less pomp and circumstance, more

heir to the throne.

Good god, give me something

I can sink my teeth into.”

- GIRL POEMS by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)