once there was a girl who forgot 
what words tasted like
when she drank them up with her eyes
and her thirsty brain was finally satisfied.

once there was a girl who stopped loving 
the words that had once tatooed themselves onto her skin
who washed them clean every time 
her eyes wandered from the page. 

once there was a girl who lost her dreams
and scoffed at magic when the subject was brought up, 
forgetting that she once used to find the fairies 
that lived on the other side of the creek. 

once there was a girl who lived 
in 
black 
white
grey 
grey
grey. 

before, 
there had been explosions of paint 
and color 
and brightness.

once, there was a girl lost. 

but then something changed.

once there was a girl who 
healed the desert inside with an 
oasis of beautiful words. 

once there was a girl who loved the words
she was born with, reckognizing 
that words were more her blood 
that anything that had ever run through her veins. 

once there was a girl who chased the clouds
and reckognized that magic was just the things we do not yet understand
but now she was on a mission to understand them. 

once there was a girl found.