A day to be young again ~

One day is all I ask.
A day to pretend.
A day to be a little girl again.
I can laugh and imagine that everything is just perfect.
That my family isn't broken and my life isn't in shambles.
A day to forget that I'm a mistake. Even a couple hours would do.
Just a little time to escape the pain. The hurt and rejection.
The confusion of life and the fear of moving on.
Yet I still live in the past.
I want my past to be forgotten. Even if only for a few minutes.
A moment of peace would be the world to me.
One more chance to laugh real.
One more chance to smile and really mean it.
A chance to look in the mirror and not hate what I see.
A chance to be everything everyone wanted me to be.
A day to be free.
A day to be accepted for me.
A day to not be judged.
A day to be the little innocent girl I used to be.
The day to not have a care in the world to just pretend to be a princess and my worst problems were that my cookie was taken from me.
A time that seemed thousands of years ago, when everyone got along.
A day to not have to live my life a lie.
To put on a little play crown and play.
A day to truly be happy again.

-Selena Strohl