Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and thoughts @cliffagreen. This was definitely not my first attempt at poetry and it won't be my last, but I find it really hard to write in a language that is not my mother tongue. Probably it will be the last of written in English without translators. Especially not being able to adapt the patterns I usually use in Turkish to English makes me feel like a fish out of water. 😂 And this "fish out of water" is a Turkish idiom.

In fact, these are not for this inner child of mine, but for an ex-lover whom I do not hesitate to hide my words and phrases, especially nowadays. And if we make the subject ex-lover instead of the inner child, everything and everything is right on point. Especially this one:

...the adult does not want to hurt the child, but she knows that she will if she catches her.

Again thank you so much for your support and thoughts. They are really dear to me. ✨