*Growing Older

For all of these years
You have been hiding me
To protect me
So that I would not see

You sheltered me
From all the world’s pain
To protect my childhood
So that I would have more to gain

You lied to me
To protect me from sadness
You lied to me
To hide me from madness

But Im growing older
And I cant be your baby anymore
Daddy, I cant be
Your little angel anymore

Im getting bigger
Im growing wiser, Dad
Someday I have to go out in the world
Someday I’ll see all that’s bad

So Daddy, just know
I cant be your little angel anymore
I have to grow up, Daddy
I cant be your baby anymore

I don’t want to be your angel anymore
Daddy, I don’t want to be your little angel anymore
I know I said I’d stay innocent
But I cant do it anymore

Yours Truly,
~*MaNdY*~

I'll start with welcome to W.C. I liked the idea behind your poem - it's hard to forever be an angel. I think the last two stanza's are a bit too similar - maybe you could combine them or re-word them so that it doesn't sound like your repeating yourself - it almost sounds as if it was forced or that you thought it needed to be longer. I don't know - just a suggestion.

~Born to Shimmer~

I used to think that I could not go on
And life was nothing but an awful song
- I believe I can fly - R. Kelly