Fidgety Child

Your emereld dress is beutiful.
But
You seem so fidgety.

The cake right next to you.
You don't care about the decorations.

You are Too young to want those yet.
You just want some of the cake.
You wait.

You don't smile in the picture.
Too shy and too worried

Worried
about not having some of the cake.
It looks delicious.
Part of that

is of course

the decorations.
You are too young to know yet.

People you think are nice you will change your mind about.
Because of stories.


Maybe the stories arn't true.
But you are Too young.
You just want cake.

It's okay too want cake. I?
I want cake.

But you? 

You.
You want it.

You are behaved,
for a fidgety child.

Burnt Black Petals

VT

18 years old

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