A Little Girl

I am a little girl

who sees things as they are

smooth or scarred

beautiful or marred.

This cosmos is my pallet

of unheard truths and lies

of unseen beauty and vice.

I am a little girl

timid to unfurl

the cloak of verity

and excited to encounter

an ever new entity.

I am a little girl

out on an adventure

with my own

hopes, desires and yearnings

All set to win and fail

and conquer again.

I am a little girl

young and free

to enjoy my own flaws

to accept my own faults

to celebrate my own firsts

to revel in my own lasts.

I am a little girl

who sees things beyond what they are

skinning the layers

to decipher a universe

beneath a universe.