In Your Eyes

When will I finally be growing up in your eyes? There is so much potential going for me right now, but it's being held back from me because of you. I'm so close to being an adult but at the same time still young enough to enjoy the things in life I'll never get again. This is the time for me to be making the memories that I'll long to relive for the rest of my life. What am I going to have to look back on if you prevent me from starting to get my taste of the world? I'm at an age where I could own and drive a car, have a job, even drop out of high school and move out on my own if I wanted to. I could be doing so much more with my life, but you are constantly standing in my way. I know you miss the days of me being dependent on you and needed you with me a lot of the time. It's time for you to learn, though, that you should start letting go some. How am I going to make it in the world on my own in a couple years if I don't start going out in it now? I think it's due time for your image of me in your eyes to start to change to who I am not and not the little girl with pigtails I was then.