Peter Pan Syndrome by Cookys-and-moonbeams, literature
Literature
Peter Pan Syndrome
I always wanted to be a kid forever.
I never wanted to have to worry about my thighs
Or my boobs
Or my lack of boobs
Or my waist
Or my hips.
I wanted to be the girl who didn't mind swimming with boys,
Didn't know why the older girls shied away
The kid who wore dorky glasses and yellow
With pink,
Who thought the next door boys had cooties,
Who always drew a smiling sun in the upper left corner of her paper,
Who was innocent enough to think the world was generous enough,
So simple, kind enough
As to let love be sweet as the candy bars she could eat with abandon.
I always wanted to be the kid who didn't know any pain
Worse than t