I don’t get why fathers have to call their daughters princess.
Make them believe in fairy tales
We live in a world
Where up until you are ten,
You believe in monsters under the bed
And you’re scared of the clowns in the circus
And to go into the haunted mansion at the fair
Because the ghosts are there
And everything is confusing with the silent ooooohs that they sigh
And then after,
You trespass the gate
Where kids go to parties and have unprotected sex
And twelve year old girls are getting abortions
And thirteen year olds are getting on their knees
For money to buy drugs

That wasn’t how a princess was in my book
Or in the stupid little Disney fairy tales that I used to read when I was five
What is a prince charming with no horse?
Nothing but an ordinary man
Yet that ordinary man became my Prince Charming.
And my dad never called me a Princess
And I never believed in fairy tales or forbidden love
And I’ve never gotten on my knees
To get money for drugs that I don’t take

There are so many girls out there
I walk into my school
And see these girls who think that I (nothing but a mere emo wallflower)
Don’t know that they were at last night’s party, or after school at the park
And that me, nothing but a mere wallflower knows about last night’s adventure.
So many girls that are beautiful in my eyes
And then they let themselves be abused by guys who couldn’t even think themselves into their pants.
While they’re daddy’s had called them princess
And they were supposed to marry a prince to take them away to some far away land
And treat her with love and care and all that good stuff.

I hate watching Spanish Novelas.
All ends the same all the time.
The good girl gets the guy and everyone lives happily ever fucking after
It’s not right.
Because it doesn’t happen in real life
To stay real, I have to cut
But how are they going to show that on TV?
I can tell real from fake when I really look
No drugs for me
I learned from my family’s mistakes
That it’s wrong to do that. Because you end up DEAD.
And I don’t get on my knees, or fuck random guys
I’m just a poet who tries to live
My only fear is losing the little control I have
And you know what?

My Daddy never called me princess.

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