It went from coloring books and plastic barbies
To football games and massive parties
The girl who used to play air guitar
Is soon to get her very first car
Since when was time a flying blur?
Will things go back to what they once were?
When nothing hurt, but a scrape on the knee
How we cried and wept when we feel from a tree
The girl sits in silence, earbuds plugged in
Is she really the person she wants to be within?
Her heart is as vast and as wide as the barents
But, it’s been hours since she talked to her parents
So the girl gets up and goes off to school
With her new shoes on so she looks extra cool
She doesn’t even like them, it’s just what’s in style
she heads her head high and fakes a huge smile
Her day was the same, as it always will be
She slumps on her bed, and has her first meal… At 3.
Her phone lights her face up, as she stalks the new “news”
And realizes nobody even layed eyes on her shoes
It’s been 30 years, the girl is now grown
She’s moved, she’s now off and alone
she wears what she wants, no matter how tacky
This change has made her so very happy
Until she gets a girl of her own
She has endless friends yet feels so alone
The mother sighs, it’s been 40 years
When she realizes, this feeling will never disappear