Inner Woman Volume 2
68 Sixteen and Forever

Girl becomes woman

uncomfortable

whistles

follow me

I don’t feel beautiful

I am shame

my innocence torn

soul broken

you never asked why

i hurt so much

you knew

in the year leading to

sixteen, you were my

buffer, my friend

and leaving fifteen

behind

held my hand

soothed my soul

loved me as i was

And you stayed the extra year

turning my sixteen to

seventeen and then we

celebrated Christmas

after I was eighteen

Love like ours wasn’t

the norm. Friends

forever, my favorite man

family but never my mate.

I knew what you were

in a time that denied

and as you turn

a year older

I love you

just as you are

sixty five and forever