Are you under the bed,
or in the sky
Maybe you're in the shadows
Where did you go?
Taking one step at a time,
carefully skipping the lines
The fun of making everything rhyme,
Where did you go?
The little girl in me,
Who sometimes weeps
while her father soundly sleeps.
Where did she go?
Now I keep a count of my drinks
And I lose track of time;
I tell everyone I’m fine,
Even though I wake up crying.
Maybe my childhood just disappeared In skipped conversations and my classic response of “Oh, I’m fine”
Sadly I am no stranger to loss
For this world has let me down too many times.
Author ~ Ananya Mihir
Editor ~ Nandini Patil and Divya Agarwal