The Paper Girl

She's a wanderer

A soul lost among the millions 

But today 

In the quiet afternoon she is not 

For she is in one place 

Where she can feel at home 

Millions of souls surround her 

Some are adventuring 

Others are falling in love

No matter what they are doing within their stories 

They are home 

They beckon and call to her as birds call to the sky 

Here in this, she has wings 

She has freedom 

No longer shackled by the chains of mortality

 Or

 By the restrictions of human laws

She can live forever 

Be forever 

Through these books 

For as long as she can remember 

Books have been there

Honestly helped raise this girl 

She has decided to give back 

She begins to write her own stories

Poems

She wants to give to the world 

What all other authors have given her: hope 

Watching her favorite heroines make it through their most trying times 

Has helped her to see that she can as well 

That all the trials she faces are not in vain 

For if they can survive 

Dragons 

Witches 

Starvation 

Depression 

A myriad more challenges 

Then so can she 

Through these pages

She can see that it is not impossible 

She wants to share pieces of herself 

The way others do 

She will live forever through her words 

Encase the lessons that have been ingrained 

In her heart 

Into paper and ink 

So that in the future 

Someone 

Somewhere 

Will 

Hear or read 

Her words 

A change they will feel

A change in their heart 

Sometimes so profound as she has often felt 

Other times a more subtle change 

That makes the trajectory for who that person will become 

No matter what kind of change

She causes, she knows it will have meaning 

Be impactful 

This girl understands that it's not the big things 

That make a difference but 

The small things 

The small smile that made someone's day 

The apology that saved someone from the edge of a knife 

They seem so small 

To many people 

They are not 

Books 

Stories 

Words 

Have revealed this to the girl over and over 

You can do a million big things 

They will never measure up to what

A million small things can do 

If this girl has learned anything 

Throughout her life it's this: 

You cannot accomplish anything big 

Without first accomplishing something small 

By putting in the small work 

It eventually adds up to a 

Beautiful 

Big 

Product 

But first it has to be 

Small