To Kill the Inner Child

Please, hush now
and be well behaved.
You have to believe it hurts me more than you.
It’s nobody’s fault,
it’s just time for you to go.
Here I am,
retrieving control,
released from all those disapproving looks
that you used to give me
every time I did something wrong.
If that’s what you want, then
what am I to do?
Being eyes downcast
and disappear?
You don’t understand it.
You can’t really harm me.
You did it long ago.
When did you realize that
you gotta get rid of
this neglected child?
'Cause you tend to forget that
we are the same person
since we were born.
I’m here to protect you,
to turn you into the kid
you were before.