Porcelain Doll-Chrisette Michele

Something I've come to REALLY take to heart. 

(I've been doing some soul-examining/searching in paris.)

Here's the thing...

I need you to stop treating me as if I'm simple or naive.

As if I don't know anything about the world. 

I understand that you think you're protecting me.

Well, I could use a little room to breathe

and the respect you give a WOMAN not a GIRL.

If you want to cradle me like a little girl and lock me down...

I'm not your possession. 

I'm a full grown woman...I am not your p o r c e l a i n doll. 

And here's the thing...

you always want to hold my hand 

and say things to me like, "I'm the man so let me do what a man's supposed to do."

Well here's the thing,

you can be the man all the while understanding I am not a child.

You're the man for sure...but baby, I'm grown too.