Little Girls

Life becomes more harsh as one grows with age.

Go softly with your steps,  little girls
Enjoy the sweetest innocence
For soon this cruel world unfurls
Its dark Reality and Pretense.

Go swiftly with your youthful walk
Feel free, release the laughter,
For Time will change the girlish talk
To memories you cannot remember.

Then,  too quickly will fly the hours
And vanishing will be the years,
Soon a lady may be in the mirrors
Trying to  wipe away her tears.

Go bravely through your life,  little ones
Learn Wisdom and have Courage,
For trials may test your Faith in the God
Who holds everything in life's pages.

Author's Note

I chose to transgress on the rhyme scheme to keep the content of the poem, which was more important for me than the form.

Reviews

[zainul]

I must congratulate you for writing such a nice poem to groom up the little girls.
The complexity of life is hardly realized by a little girl unless some harm has been experienced.
You may reach to the little girls or their parents through your nice poem.
I am not an expert on rhyming or prosody.So,I will refrain from making any comment on that aspect.

[Serenity Faith]

Innocence is such a blissful thing, too soon do little girls learn what is to become a woman, to become many different roles in the play of life.

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Heartfelt! Soft, sincere, gesture of poet love :)

[Ed Hart]

tears are the price we pay to grow up, if we grow up even then

[BLACK PRINCE]

This is such a deep, meaningful, powerful poem.
It is true that our innocent kids are quickly having
their innocence snatched from them because of evil society.
We now live in a society of sexual immoralities of all kind.
And our little kids, especially girls, are under immense pressure
to feel as though they have to conform to society sick norm.

I love your use of rhymes.
You use rhymes objectively, meaningfully
whilst retaining a natural rhythm and flow.

Sadly some poets carelessly use rhyme without impact.
But I guess we all constantly learn, especially when we have
the passion and desire to progress in our poetic craft.

Your rhyme scheme is impeccable. However,
Let me constructively point out something in the 4th stanza:
I would suggest you find another word to meaningfully rhyme with COURAGE.
Because I see that PAGES, being plural of PAGE, don't rhyme with COURAGE.
There are other words that could replace pages ( even page will do )
whilst still retaining the power and the message of this beautiful poem.

But I am sure you have your reasons for choosing those two words
in the 4th stanza.

I LIKE TO KEEP IT REAL
WITH FELLOW WRITERS AND POETS.

WELL DONE!!!

[Dean Kuch®]

The loss of our youth and innocence, how dastardly cruel is time. You have penned these emotions with a touching resonance and a beautifully poignant prose. Well done!