A Collection of Poems

A Little Girl

I was once a little girl

One who looked at the world

As a place filled with hopes and dreams

But this wasn't for long, as life has that way of throwing those screams

Right

When you weren't asking for them

I was once a little girl

Who took everything for granted

I had nothing to be thankful for, nothing to truly appreciate,

I realize now how stupid I was, for it is the things that I took for granted that suddenly vanished

I was once a little girl

Who looked up to her parents, who thought that they could do everything for me

But that too, I realized, was not true

Because in the end, even parents have their limits, there was no hope that they could always let me be

Free

I was once a little girl

Who wanted to be like her mother

But now I realize how stupid I was

Because sometimes our loved ones are the ones that teach us lessons we can use to hurt others

Not help, but hurt.

I was once a little girl,

Who thought that my family could do it all

Who thought there was no one better than them

Thought they could catch me from my every fall

But now I realize how different reality is

From those fantasies that I made up

I was once a little girl,

Who thought my parents would care for me, would stay with me, forever

I now realize how stupid I was

Because my parents, weren't there to stay,

They were there to give me a small push

But they didn't stay

They left me to find my own path

In a place, called life

I once was a little girl,

Who thought that my parents would believe in me

But that too, was not reality

Sure, they cared

About everything except my life

They cared about my studies and my sports, but my truths and secrets I have never revealed.

I was once a little girl

Who thought that she could tell her parents anything

But that too, wasn't true,

Because in the end, through punishments from truth and praise from lies,

Did I only learn to tell those fake truths

Because I didn't want to be hurt

I was once a little girl

Who thought that friendships were things that were able to carry on through a lifetime,

But that wasn't true,

They ended one by one,

I am no longer that little girl

Who mixed up fact with fantasy and fantasy with fact

I have seen my parent's dark side

Experienced pain

Seen my life without things that I had taken for granted.

I am no longer the carefree little girl I once was because life threw those painful things at me to teach me lessons.