oh, little girl

when will you realize

you're full of flaws

you're bursting at the seams

but they will never weigh you down.

you are burdened

simply because you love strongly

deeply

without a single question

you give all of yourself away.

you were forged

not with fire and brimstone

but with paper and pen

the stuff of legends

wrapped so exquisitely.

skin of parchment

the decadence of sunlight

trapped inside your body

lighting you from within

you bleed ink when cut into.

it isn't your fault

that you feel so much

you have all of humanity

crammed into your heart

oh, how it must ache.

you are upholding a billion-year legacy

you are made of the stars above and seas below

a part of the heavens lives within you

oh, little girl

do not let it w e i g h

y o u