20/30 - Call Me Kate

Call me Kate

I am scared but receptive

I am a merger in the form of a body

I am not your mother’s princess

I am as perfect as normal allows

I am alright with the primping and preening

I even like the photo spreads

I am my mother’s princess

I strive for meta-normal

neither boring nor enticing

neither affectionate nor detached

too much grace or wit

can be dangerous

I will be wife mother

daughter I will always know my role

each room will tell me

each house has a script

I will not be sacrificed on any altar

as I will not totter in my heels

or slouch under weight of robes

I am a tiara

Make no mistake

I am not an agenda

nor anyone’s idea of

what has come before

or what must need be now

I will grow old with certitude

of events running as they should

of needs being consistently met

of the glory of the honoured bargain

How many people

get to say that

anymore?

c. e. amato

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