Dedication: To Lau, you're strong and beautiful, and fierce. Don't allow someone so small to break your spirit.
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Oh little girl,
So afraid of the world,
You allowed a man to control how you saw it.
You stepped into the light, bare faced and naive.
His grip on your heart a leash pulling you back,
Your eagerness stifled and your joy trampled.
His voice, loud and brash, coarse and violent
Shattering the egg shell delicacy of your independence.
Chains of love locked around you body with whispered apologies and promises that this was going to be different.
Like a songbird in a gilded cage, its song long since silenced by its beautiful prison.
But now the songbird is free, little girl.
It's cage has rusted and shattered.
The lock breaking, chains finally cut.
Oh little girl, you are beautiful and strong.
You do not need to fear the world darling.
The world needs to fear you
For you are eager, thirsting to see it.
And you cannot be stopped.
Oh little girl, his threats and promises are dead words, buried in an unmarked grave.
His control is gone, and you, like the songbird are free.
And little girl, the world is yours for the taking.
