We Are the Daughters
What are we now
Are we the type to beseech forgiveness instead of ask for consent
Do we throw ourselves down in wicked laughter
Push and pull at the souls of others
Others like us
Born we are born
We come into this world ill-equipped and screaming
White as snow blank as the night sky
Ready to be filled up with dirty needs and limp morals
We slip acid tabs on our tongues we smoke crack rocks and crystal meth
We snort lines and smoke blunts and joints
Is this all well and good is this the natural order of things
We drink till death we drink for the floor
Head down legs splayed ass up
We land in our own bile
We land in some demented prayer
We are confused we are out of control we are out of our element
We flounder like a fish with its head cut off
We let ourselves be fucked in the ass in the back of a car
We call ourselves easy with an alarming and disturbing sense of pride
We show our skin
The skin that we fought so hard for
For a quick glance and an easy screw
We go down on boys we barely know
We lie to our mothers and they lie to us
We live off of kisses and roaming fingers
We are the daughters
Of our fathers of our mothers of our nation
We fought for suffrage
We fought for freedom
We fought for our children
We fought for our daughters
We fought with grace and nonviolence
We thrive on violence
We pull each other’s hair
We kiss each other’s boyfriends
We tear at each other with words like a serrated knife
We rip one another a part
We unravel our souls and dump them in hell
What are we now
Are we the type to rip off our limbs and sell them to the highest bidder
Bargain our virginity like a cheap plastic figurine from the dollar store
Starve our bodies and pollute them to look
Prettier sexier kissable fuckable
We are a lost cause
We are an insult
We are a mess of what was
We are damned
Damned to walk the earth
With the shroud of shame
Clouded eyes
And a trembling smile
Are we the type to beseech forgiveness instead of ask for consent
Do we throw ourselves down in wicked laughter
Push and pull at the souls of others
Others like us
Born we are born
We come into this world ill-equipped and screaming
White as snow blank as the night sky
Ready to be filled up with dirty needs and limp morals
We slip acid tabs on our tongues we smoke crack rocks and crystal meth
We snort lines and smoke blunts and joints
Is this all well and good is this the natural order of things
We drink till death we drink for the floor
Head down legs splayed ass up
We land in our own bile
We land in some demented prayer
We are confused we are out of control we are out of our element
We flounder like a fish with its head cut off
We let ourselves be fucked in the ass in the back of a car
We call ourselves easy with an alarming and disturbing sense of pride
We show our skin
The skin that we fought so hard for
For a quick glance and an easy screw
We go down on boys we barely know
We lie to our mothers and they lie to us
We live off of kisses and roaming fingers
We are the daughters
Of our fathers of our mothers of our nation
We fought for suffrage
We fought for freedom
We fought for our children
We fought for our daughters
We fought with grace and nonviolence
We thrive on violence
We pull each other’s hair
We kiss each other’s boyfriends
We tear at each other with words like a serrated knife
We rip one another a part
We unravel our souls and dump them in hell
What are we now
Are we the type to rip off our limbs and sell them to the highest bidder
Bargain our virginity like a cheap plastic figurine from the dollar store
Starve our bodies and pollute them to look
Prettier sexier kissable fuckable
We are a lost cause
We are an insult
We are a mess of what was
We are damned
Damned to walk the earth
With the shroud of shame
Clouded eyes
And a trembling smile