We

We will tread glass,
take to pyre,
inhale every vial we are gifted,
sweet at first, then bitter,
we will watch
as they blacken our name.
We are unwilling
to stay afraid of the pillaging of women,
of how quick the world turns upon us
when we are too fast
too slow,
too fearing,
too forward,
too tight lipped,
too sentimental,
too risked,
too hardened,
too harmed,
too still,
too small,
too vulnerable,
too living,
too breathing,
too fucking torn by time,
the chasm of our faults, their faults,
mutual, masticated fucking faults.

- Fuck that shit now.

We,
we will burn on their pyres,
we will tread through their glass,
we will take down that poison
and emerge greater still,
we will handle the blackening,
we will bind to the hurt,
we will spit the vitriol as venom
and survive the worst of it,
we will soar for our sunlight,
leaving them to their shadow and dusk.