the girl I use to see in the mirror
no longer appers, she used to be
full of child like innocents,
but now in her place shines a new, but older face
that's full of new life.
where once she had to look to her parents
for everything, but now she turns away
and says "I will be doing and going my own way,
starting right today."
though it seems she is full of self pride and 
confidence like she has nothing to hide,
but really she has fogged up her mind with
doubt of failing in the futures time.
she looks into the mirror at night
using the moons natural light,
and sees herself in a new way,
that she never saw before, until today,
just something about it made her shiver
in fright thinking to herself, is this really
me, where has the time taken the little girl
who use to nap in a dresser draw by her grandparents bed,
her life has gone so fast. she wonders how she will know
what way to go. she exclaims to herself in utter distress,
"I have been told right from worng, and good from bad,
but I was never told, that someday I would grow old, and
have to go my own way. 
despite what I have been told in the past,
and that what I was told when I was younger, was only there
till I was old enough to bare my own thoughts and dreams.
figure out for myself the world is not all peaches and
cream.
after she thought about this new discovery of hers, she says
in a quiet voice
"I guess I have a chose, I can slide my feet through life's
mud or I can
pick up my feet and step little by little to life's uneasy
jiggle."