"to be everything"

They gave us the power

to be anything

so now

we are forced

to be everything;

We are silent superheroes

and trying our best

while fading away

and we are invisible until we make a mistake

and then what used to be a dark silhouette

suddenly becomes bright

for all the world to see,

the world that we are tasked with saving,

the world that is far too out of reach.

We are the daughters of the queens

but not the goddesses

and we are the ones to which they handed the Earth

and said

fix this

but we can never even fix

ourselves

so we save hungry children

with our fingers down our throats

and we charitably glance at the ones

pushed to the margins of society

with blades on our arms

as a warning of our fate should we become one of them;

we stuff pills down our throats

while standing up and telling the ones

who look up to us

that they should never be in this situation

as if they have a choice

and we compress our souls

until there is very little left

and we put up a facade

of effortless bliss.