Where'd she go?

She was brave once, brash in her opinions (and in her opinion that everyone should know and care about...her opinions). Loud, vivacious, comfortable pushing the envelope, unafraid of letting her feelings show... even those ones, even her crushes, even love. oh how he fell for her in all her broken bravery... after.

She was brave once. Before she built those walls. (although she's sure those walls are invisible to the ones who look, because her voice carries so easily over top of them. But she knows they're there. She's the one who occasional bangs her head against them after all.)

She was brave once. She would have told him. But now her silence deafens her. She doesn't know when she gave up her boldness. She clings to an illusion of it (that's what you see, if you're wondering).

She was brave once. Reckless with her own heart. that's over. She's learned that lesson.

But she'd like to find that brave girl again. She'd like to be able to just say......