Eager to be different.

11 years old
fully prepared
to enter the world.
Worried about body image,
hairy legs and the girls
that insist you're not good enough.
As if it were the most important thing.

I sit back and smile
as if watching myself
all of those years ago.
completely unaware
of the bliss and the
total lack of care
that was to come:

and the deep rooted desire to be
11 years old again.