Little Girl

By Aaliya Singh Rao

Little girl, where did your daddy go?

Go ahead and cry, little girl

Curl into a ball on your bathroom floor

Allow your tears to pour

Not letting your mother fear

Not letting your brother hear

Just let yourself disappear

Put on a smile every day

Nobody would care anyway

All you want is to break away

Go ahead and cry, little girl

Let all your emotions unfurl

Let the ocean flow out of your eyes

You miss him

I know

You feel helpless

I know

You feel reckless

I know

It's not selfish

It was traumatizing to witness

You feel numb I know

You feel glum

I know

Your heart broke into two

I know

You couldn't cry

You thought something was wrong with you

You knew it would come to take him away from you

You knew no one would understand what it meant for you

Little girl where did your daddy go

I think you know.