I used to be a damsel

I used to be a damsel in distress

Making mistakes

And waiting for others

To clean them up

The mistakes piled higher

One after another

Until they made a mountain

I couldn’t see over

I would wait atop it patiently

For someone to rescue me

So that I wouldn’t need

To fight my own battles

Only soon my saviours

They stopped coming

One after another

They were too tired, too worn out

They begged me

To fix my own mistakes

I wept atop the mountain

Too afraid to climb down

Not wanting to fall

Too scared to move

I distanced myself from the world

Waiting there until one day I realised

A damsel can slay dragons too

So I brandished my sword

And chose to change my fate