Legs

I've been told to change myself

To adapt

To grow legs for a man I met at the sea

To eat the apple cuz I was hungry

To sit in a tower and

brush

my

hair

It's been said

that the best bed

is the one made with one beside you

I've been advised to televise

my feelings my emotions my

thoughts

At every waking moment

to accept the beast

for beneath the horns

is a rose

To stop on a mountain and plead

to forget my just around the river bend

for a man on the mend

who will give me a reason

to live

But what is that reason

what is the reward

For lying in a glass case

and waking to the underchin

of a musky man I've never met

who seems to be my true love

though I've never been one who likes

to be kept

I refuse to live in that cage

I will NOT be Sandra D

and give away my sense of virginity

to the next Zuko who has some

grease to his lightning

No.

I am WOMAN hear me roar

I will NOT go where you've been

beore

I am a tigress

I am a lioness

a huntress

I will bring PRIDE to my pride

and I will not stand

to wait for a man

to put a band

on my finger and claim me for his

fortress

I will become

I will break my own cocoon

I will not count the moments

or strands of my hair

passing the meaningless minutes

till my one love is there

I will keep my tail

I will suck the venom from the apple

and deal with the knowledge that

floods my frontal lobe

For I was born to die

and I will not waste my time

on a prophecy

that MANkind created for me

I will read the palm of the cards that

I'm given

and I will be free.