Aloof.

The days come and go,
so does my shadow
with night and day,

I’ve grown, grown big
to want a husband and children,

without the sun’s warm embrace,
I’ve followed life,
living with principle
and my words, to their abode;

I’m a woman now,
my mother’s hands smaller than mine,

I’m a woman,
the mirror paints her beautiful,

The days are long gone,
those days I miss and my head
can’t twist back enough to recall them,

This, this is sadness.