Abington High School Student Arts Magazine | Page 50

A little girl always wondered about growing up

She always wanted to bloom too

She wondered who

Who would she become

And if she would change the world

For better, or worse.

People told her lies

Such as time heals everything

But it doesn’t

Maybe some things

But definitely not all

Whether she suffered from a broken heart

That she felt had crushed her

Or another shattered friendship.

She was done

Being ignored

And taken for granted.

Now as a teen

She still feels like

Nobody takes her seriously.

To her

People are just judges

She feels like she gets criticized for anything

She doesn’t just feel this way in school

She feels this with complete strangers

People that don’t even know her name.

She always wanted to grow up

Now she asks why

She wants to be a kid again.

THE GIRL

Elizabeth Bromley, 2022