Little me, with the head full of dreams.

I'm sorry for what I did to you.

For what let them do to you.

Little me

Whose heart was so big

And whose skin was so thin

That you walked around with your insides open.

Pages blank

Waiting for everyone

Anyone

To leave their mark.

Giving away pieces of you like you had them to spare.

Each one an 'I love you'

'Please don't go

A 'tell me it's safe'.

Until there were only the bones of you left

Waiting to be filled from the outside in.

Little me

Who stopped her dreaming

Who stopped her feeling

So that she only sat and smiled

Becoming whatever the world wanted her to be.

Tucking all of her pain away into the deepest cracks of her heart

Out of sight

But never truly out of mind.

Little me

The softest, most tender and most loving part of me.

Thank you.

Because despite it all, you stayed.

Folded away under the layers of my shame.

Patiently waiting.

Silently praying that I'd find you again.

Little me, with the head full of dreams.

I'm sorry it took me so long

But you're safe now.

Because we're home now.

And I will never let you go again.