Old Poem: Just a 'Girl'

2014

Just a 'Girl'

The last splashes of red and orange greet you as you open the door;

Love notes to Autumn’s beauty slowly fading away into sepia.

Walking off the frost-laced path, feel the grass shatter under your feet, crunching, unable to bend. Just like you have been for so long.

Now everything is changing,

The lies are falling away like the fluttering leaves in the wind.

You’re uncovering yourself, brushing the snowflakes from your eyes,

Seeing yourself for who you are.

Do you like who you are becoming?

Take a breath of the vanilla air, Winter has finally come.

Darkness and light are colliding in sprays of silver and black.

Confusion and clarity are one, forever intertwined in a lover’s embrace.

For every answer you get, another question steps into the light and speaks up for the first time.

Is everything you told yourself a lie?

Wrap your jacket close to your heart, hoping to keep it safe and warm.

Hoping to protect it from all the needle-sharp words that scurry through your mind.

Are you who you thought you were?

No…

You are just a 'girl'.