"Little Girl" by Bianca Butters

As a little girl she would love to sing and dance

She’d play dress up and have pretend romance

She loved the stories such as the princess and the pea

But also adored the superheroes she’d want to be

She ran around with a tiara on her head

A cape around her neck, jumping off the bed

She doesn’t know what is about to come next

As she got ready for school, looking her best.

She held onto her Iron Man lunch box and wore her bluest dress too

Only to go to the bus stop to be made fun of before noon

She came home that day with tears streaming down

She cried, “mama they made me feel like a clown”

Her mother was too busy on the phone

Yelling out words a little girl should never know

The little girl was so lost and confused

How come her mama wasn’t listening to her sad news?

Soon she realized it was daddy on the other end

After a week he realized he made problems he couldn’t mend

He left his little girl who was having it tough

She grew to become bitter to what she thought was once love

Her father was meant to be the first man she adored

Now how is she going to find something worth so much more

Her happiness didn’t last

As the days flew past

The little girl who once loved to sing and dance

Put away all that along with the romance

Looking down on the world like it was nothing

She came to a realization that she wanted to be worth something

Now working on being the little girl to be proud of

She put away all her tiaras and superpowers

She tried her best in all subjects at school

Tried so hard not to make herself look like a fool

After all the years she had been unnoticed

She did her best to keep her focus

Nothing was going to bring her down at her peak

She wanted to be everything, everything but weak

Now the sad thing is that many of you girls can relate

You kept all this pain held up inside even to this very date

Well I just wanted to say that the strength in your eyes

Is bigger than any man can be likewise

And hear me out on this

 I didn’t intend to make it as a diss

I don’t mean to leave out sorrow for the guys

But you already know you’re worth when women are denied

All through life we long for affection

The feeling for someone to build a connection

The power of our hearts beat unsteadily

Only to find somebody that can be our remedy

To find the happiness we had once as a child

To have a significant other that will be able to reconcile

The hurt and the loss we had felt several times previously

All the moments where we weren’t taken seriously

We are not the little girls that I had told you of before

We will not stand it anymore

Our worth has not shrunk though

So I am here to recognize how much you’ve grown

In fact, you’re worth has exceeded over time

And my, oh my, how brightly you began to shine.

You probably shine even brighter now than from when you were that little girl.