The Chosen Paths

I want to be the child

who creeps from her bed

to lay with a flashlight

completing that final chapter

simply because morning

is too far.

Not the one who

slips out the window

to join her friends

in the drinking games.

I want to be the child

who strives to be

comfortable and content

freely living in my own body

and not the one

that squeezes herself

into everyone else's. 

I want to be the child. 

Author's Note

Unfinished, more scenarios would be appreciated. I've also contemplated changing the entire poem to be presented to another person, the stanzas reading "I want you to be the child". Opinions wanted on that ! Thank you!