A little girl sits
Alone in her room
Wishing on a star
For a love she'll wait years
To understand
She plays with Barbies
And paper dolls
She doesn't know a world
Outside of Disney movies
Still night after night she sits
Long after her mommy has gone to sleep
And prays for a lover
Who will one day appear
To hold her
And love her
And make her feel like
Cinderella
Dancing with her prince at the ball
For now she's a five year old
Sleeping Beauty
Waiting for her true love
To come and wake her
With a tender kiss
Years pass
She leaves behind the days
Of Disney and Playskool
She moves on to high school
Dating and homework
Long forgotten are the days
Of laughing and playing
Of wishing on stars
Love comes and goes
Yet still she waits
For that one person
Who can give her heart
A home
One day this girl
Who is now anything but
She meets a woman
Something tells her
"This is it"
Somehow she knows
This is the one
She's waited for all this time
Time passes
She falls in love
Faster and deeper
Than she ever has before
She's found her true love
And one night as she lies
Spent in her lover's arms
Dreaming of all they will do
An image appears
In the back of her mind
A little girl
Sitting on her bed
Her Little Mermaid comforter
Wrapped tightly around
Her tiny body
She's talking to a star
Back in the present
She smiles
As she realizes
That the wish
That little girl made
So many years ago
Has finally come true
And now that I've told you
This beautiful story
Of love and dreams come true
I'll let you in on a secret, love
That little girl was me
And the love she found was you