Another age old story <br />seventeen years of nurturing <br />yearns to be free. <br /> <br />A sense of entitlement reigns, <br />not a particularly new game <br />just an eternal rite of passage. <br /> <br />Little angel <br />you have grown strong, bold; <br />your heart dismissive and cold. <br />Where are you going? <br /> <br />Once a babe in our arms <br />now distant; so disarming, <br />a little girl no more <br />storms out the door.... <br /> <br />Where are you taking our hearts?<br /><br />Carolyn Brunelle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ancient-struggle/