(she.1)

They didn’t tell
her who she was
and so she doesn’t
see it. As people
sometimes say
she’s pretty,
but doesn’t know
it.
Or give her what
she needed,
she treats herself
accordingly,
pushing past
rest and hunger,
They didn’t see
that she was there,
so she never knows
quite where she is.
And feels invisible
in her own life.
They trained her into
a Cinderella life
of service. but did
not say the glass slipper
will come.
And so it never did.