Excuse me, but can you help me out?<\/p>\n
You see, I swear she was right here<\/p>\n
Right where I left her<\/p>\n
Freckled faced, dishwater blonde<\/p>\n
Grass stained knees, teeth too big, legs too short<\/p>\n
Heart as big as the ocean<\/p>\n
Curious, hopeful, trusting<\/p>\n
Blue eyes open wide to a world of possibilities<\/p>\n
Dreams bigger than her small corner of the world<\/p>\n
You see, I went on ahead<\/p>\n
I promised to come back for her some day<\/p>\n
But I got lost along the way<\/p>\n
I got lost in chasing those dreams down dead end streets<\/p>\n
I got distracted by the promises made by those who did not deserve that trust<\/p>\n
Curiosity outweighed caution, hope was replaced by despair<\/p>\n
My blue eyes are too clouded by tears to see anything apart from impossibility<\/p>\n
My knees are scraped and bloodied<\/p>\n
My teeth broken on screams that no one hears<\/p>\n
My heart drowns in an ocean of what could’ve been<\/p>\n
My freckles are replaced with age marks and my dishwater blonde has faded to grey<\/p>\n
So now, I have come back<\/p>\n
I have come back to find that piece of me I left behind for a rainy day<\/p>\n
The piece of me who remains innocent, unjaded, untarnished by all this life has done to me<\/p>\n
I have come back to reclaim her, to remember<\/p>\n
What it feels like to be young, hopeful, trusting<\/p>\n
To dream….<\/p>\n
So, can you help me out?<\/p>\n
You see, I swear she was right here…..<\/p>\n
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