Empowered

A poem

(Photo by Sandra Frey on Unsplash)

I’ve lost myself in a kingdom

in the fabric of a fairytale,

you ride in, a knight in armor.

Realizing I require no rescuing,

just a simple subject in search of direction

you choose not to tell me how to get happily ever after

and instead dismount your horse and walk with me.

You guide me gently, rather than handing over your map

taking time from your assiduous conquest

to help me with mine.

Your fortitude is truly exquisite.

I admire that you don’t acknowledge me

like I’m a delicate damsel in distress-

in your eyes I am instead

a lone lost outlander

trying to find my way home.

In that moment I discover-

I don’t need to be saved,

I can do that on my own.

My only desire is to commit myself

to someone willing to walk beside me

on this journey called life.

To you I’m not this broken little girl,

I’m not sure you even believe in broken people.

My, how you’ve opened my eyes,

and freed me from my ordinary odyssey,

introducing me to an unfamiliar world

in which I am not the victim.

You reveal things to me I’ve never known

as you show me that I don’t have to bow down-

I too can slay dragons with grace like you

if I only pick up the sword

and learn to do so.