Enjoy your innocence
for it never ever lasts.
The world will suck you into a void of
awareness, commercialism, and greed.
"What is normal?" She slowly speaks
into the cold winter air.
Poor little 9-year-old girl
clutching her black one-eyed teddy bear.
Tears stained her face
already frozen.
So frozen
she was just about ready to shatter.
She may live the life of a princess
but in her delusional mind
stuffed animals and fairy tales attack her while she sleeps.
"Is this just a daydream?" Her innocent mind wonders
as she lies warm in her bed but still cold for it's her against her own world.
Everyone thought she was a bad little girl
and punished for her supposed wrongdoings.
So she became a bad little girl
and did what the evil stuffed animals told her to that choked her in the night.
She listened to the voices of the fairy tales that taunted her in her nightmares.
Now that her innocence has fled
the restraints on her wrists are tightened.
She suffers alone
alone she remains.
No more stuffed animals and no more fairy tales.
They were all just shadows
and they were all just voices...
Right?