Daddy, don't leave me!

To teenage girls who are getting older but still need the love of their fathers.

Daddy, it's been such a long time since the last time you picked me up, into your arms, where I always felt the most safe. 

I'm a big girl now daddy. Too big for you to carry around on your shoulders, or tuck in to sleep at night. I know it seems your little girl is gone, but she's not!

 Daddy I'm still here daddy. And I still need you. I always will. I don't play with Barbies and coloring books anymore, they've been replaced with make-up and jewlery. Crayons have been replaced with nailpolish.

 Those cute little poems and pictures that I used to make for you in Kindergarten have been replaced with highschool and hard work. Fairy-tales to diarys, the park to the mall. It's all changing. 

Remember those Heelys shoes that you bought me cause I wouldn't stop nagging you about them? I don't want them anymore. I'd rather have a date with that special boy. Oh I hope you like him! He treats me like a princess! Just like you did when I was little! 

Everything's being replaced. But daddy, I'm scared..everythings being replaced, I don't want you to be replaced! I need you daddy! Please don't go. Don't leave me. Daddy I love you. I need you. Daddy I'm growing up. But I'll always be your princess, so daddy please, please, please don't go.

Because I still need you, now and always.