To be seen and not heard

She is used in reference to the writer, the previous version of herself. I, is used in reference to who she is now, or who she identified with during that time. Her is often used in reference to the female figures within her life, the figures they used to be and the representations of the parts of themselves that were the darkest and, at times, the lightest influencers for she.   Scattered within are poems, written throughout her childhood. Little snapshots into her child voice during those