Little Girl

So trivial, so small
Sit; Don’t speak.
Put her under a glass on a high dusty shelf.
She’s such a pretty little girl.

Never see that she is much older than she ever wanted to be.
Youthful smiles disguise experience she could have done without.
Everyone’s worlds burden her shoulders
causing wrinkles around her heart not her eyes.
If she trips, it will all crash about her.
The jagged and unmerciful shards will cut and burn as she bleeds.

Not one with a care for her needs.
They all say that she knows nothing-
That she is nothing-
Nothing more than a silly little girl.