Bratz Dolls and angel food cake,

Recorders and tangerines.

I remember these things vividly.

I remember eating angel food cake,

While playing with our collection of Bratz Dolls.

Eating tangerines while we practiced recorder in the pit.

From preschool to fourth grade,

From preschool until I left.

I remember you vividly.

I remember your 8th birthday party,

How I made you cry,

And so I drew you a cat to cheer you up.

I cannot think of you without thinking of a fairy,

Because that is what you were.

Slightly pointed ears,

Freckles like constellations on your cheeks.

Eyes the shade of robins eggs,

Contrasted by a double layer of black lashes.

Dark waves braided into a crown,

Woven in with flowers and silk ribbon.