Sixteen
Sixteen is the
Age of excitement
Rebirth
And new
Experiences
Sixteen is the age where
You are no longer
Mothers little
Girl with her radiant
Blonde hair tied
Into two pigtails
Her innocence of youth
Still intact
The light in her eyes
Still shining
Bright as day
Driving
Driving is a milestone
That everyone looks forward
Too with baited breath
But what happens when
One girl's legs simply ****
At being legs?
What happens when
Society drags her under
The deep dark ocean
Of loathing her natural beauty?
What happens when society
Tells her what she can or can not be
What happens when she gets picked on
What happens when the monster in the closet
Becomes her own self-image what
Happens when she learns that people
Are cold cruel crass or malicious
To her just for being her
Will her innocence of youth
Be broken  like a fragile glass
Will the light vanish from her eyes
Leaving only rain clouds of tears
Will the ghost of a smile no one has seen
In months linger on her face
Will she let go of the cliff that is
Called hope that she has been clinging
To all her life falling to the rocky jagged
Called life the blood that was her
Hope
innocence
Youth
Optimism
Spilling out of her
Wounds
What happens when she turns sixteen?