I'M Not Sorry... Poem by Natasha Dowdy

I wasn't what you expected me to be; Grace and elegance incarnate.
I don't hold the keys to your happiness, I'm lucky to find my own.
I wasn't the girl of your dreams; Innocence, youth, and beauty encapsulated.
No, I'm not these things at all
You put me on a pedestal in your mind while I was still someone else's version of me.
I'm much darker than all that, more jaded than you could've imagined.
I'm not rainbows and butterflies
I'm skulls and crossbones