In poem one,
There is a girl.
She looks in the mirror,
Trying to find
A girl from long ago.
That careless girl
Who didn't care
About people's remarks
When she played
With Barbies,
Not the teenager
Who flinched and cared
About every single thing
Someone says.
The girl who looked
In the mirror
Was looking for that girl
Who always expressed herself
Honestly.
Unlike that teenager,
She laughed and cried.
She didn't care
How people criticized her
For some of her emotions.
This teenager cared.
She masked herself,
Dressed up herself,
Corrected herself;
Anything for her
To fit in.
Now, that teenager wonders
As she looks in the mirror.
She searches in her eyes,
Memories in her mind.
She knew that girl.
She was that girl
Long ago.
But where did that girl
Go?
As I read this poem,
It reminds me
Of myself.
There was a girl long ago
Who was careless
Like the one in the poem.
Apparently, that was me.
But sometimes, I wonder,
Where did that girl
Go?