~ It’s an odd feeling wanting to be understood in an intimate way but at the same time wanting the freedom of being a mystery. Thus, here you have my words, but not my face.

Woman

Make me fulfill my dharma and be your Lakshmi

Your consort only meant for you

Reincarnate life after life and I’m still only yours

Put me on a pedestal and make me divine

Destroy my temple when that pedestal breaks

Expect me to become a second mother

Your angel of the household

Look after you like a child, always forgiving

Stand pure in a cathedral until you get mad

Because I don’t compare to a Mary

Take me because of my pretty face

Your honeyed temptation from the gods

Open the box and release what I will

Blame me for your foolishness

Say I caused your downfall like Pandora

Cut me from my bamboo shoot and name me Kaguyahime

Your unreachable beauty

Send you on impossible quests

You want me more but fail every time

Don’t know my longings yet still try to bind me.

Label me who you want

A fellow person you never tried to figure out

Tried to exist, just living my life

Made of me what you wanted without a care

Don’t be angry when you never thought about who I actually am