A Youth Too Grown To Stay

Of all the love lost

It was her that it cost

That smile, those eyes

Oh how they lie

Time has pulled and pushed

Skin torn, bones bruised

Now standing as one does

Takes more than once was

The aches of breathing

of a beating

not of my heart

But the pulsing throb of a mind torn apart

Don't listen- there's no reason

The cries are too far away

A little girl stumbles

Damn this blunder

Of a youth too grown to stay

Never as she was

Cursed to grow

Take the toys

Remove her bows

Kindness didn't visit

but oh how jealousy did

Green as the grass her toes loved to tread

Now down the path of mediocracy- it's safety-

Then why this dread?

Who was this little soul before?

That laugh that voice

Plummeted into the future

without a choice

When did the evil cackle

crack the whip of shackles

of a youth too tired to say

Deep within a cavern

Farther than Saturn

My inner child finally sleeps

Katie Austen W