Notes: Poem for english class (HS), in heroic couplets. Point of view of a Native American female child in the colonial days of America.
A girl within a body full of life
is not yet ready as to be a wife
My Mother, Wife of Father, works til nigh'
She said I'll too be one someday, so try
to be polite and stay within her sight
But then I want to be a bird in flight
Go higher, further, reaching past the fire
With Mother Earth, alone in proud attire,
I shall be one with Nature til demise.