Paper dolls

Tucked away in an envelope 

is a letter you once wrote 

from a dozen years ago 

and a small paper doll. 

I promised I’d take you with me 

as we embarked on a journey 

And there’s so many sights you’d see 

through the eyes of a paper doll. 

I should have sent you home 

but I couldn’t seem to let go 

We were connected hand in hand 

As we floated away in the wind. 

As we floated away in the wind. 

Tattered fragments of a napkin

is all that’s left of that weekend,

a captain’s log of memories 

reduced to smudged and faded ink. 

In a box upon my dresser,

is an unfinished letter, 

never destined for completion,

for there’s nobody left to read it. 

I should have sent you home 

but I couldn’t seem to let go 

We were connected hand in hand 

As we floated away in the wind. 

As we floated away in the wind. 

We are just paper dolls

Don’t you think so?

We are just paper dolls,

we follow where the wind blows.