GIRLS (#Wattys2018)

a girl is a gun

girls exist in all forms-

they can be jagged like pieces of metal-

rough around the edges, sharp enough to maw,

or they can be delicate petals of tulip,

deliciously delicate with a gossamer's touch-

a girl does not lack her worth if she is unable

to tear down the walls of a revolution-

neither is she any less of a girl if she does;

a girl is an explosion either way.

[her personality doesn't determine how 'worth it' she is in the eyes of the man]. 

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