A lifetime in stages
Early ones, later ones, now ones
Learning all the time
Changing from moments
Moving and maturing in all ways
All ways that were gleaned
Then ever so suddenly
Comes someone important
One who might slay the dragon
If there is will
Can see into the nucleus
Shining and strong
Not avocation for the faint of heart
Or the faithless
A function left over from early days
Turning back to the child inside
Trying to deny her lingering
The feelings of one so strong
She who is me
Only three times faced
Needing to be favorite, the best, The One
Wanting to be always
I wonder at the connection
One a woman, one a girl
She comes unbidden
Would that she leave me in peace
Embrace her or scorn me
She knows no other way