Something instead
She was so strong because she had to
No one in the background to say “I got you”
She always cried tears no one could see
Hoping someone would come to set her free
Her heart was broken time after time
Others walls she got too tired to climb
She was a lost soul in search of truth
Longing to find the girl of her youth
Who she used to be she had soon forgotten
Like her soul had started to slowly rotten
She was beginning to die there on the inside
No matter what she did or how she tried
She floated about drifting shore to shore
Trying to find that lost soul again once more
The reflection in the mirror was a stranger
She had no idea how close she was to danger
Darkness she could no longer seem to outrun
Fear overcame her, she felt herself becoming undone
She reached for the rope she hoped to find
Fanning her hand into the darkness like the blind
She wanted to grasp hold of something strong
Help her to forget the times she’d been so wrong
She needed the strength of another’s arms
To hold her and tell her she was safe from harm
She searched through the darkness holding true
That soon she would find it, she would find you
She tried to remember the last time she smiled
Did she as an adult or was it when she was a child
When was the last time someone saw her soul
That they looked into her eyes and saw she wasn’t whole
Could the years of such damage even be repaired?
Would someone see the broken pieces and even care?
Was there magic glue for each and every piece?
Could the pain go away or slowly decrease?
The storms rush in, waves of rain and thunder
She would sit alone in her room and often just wonder
Why life had left her devastated and broken
“Please love me” she left the words unspoken
A critic once knocked her so deeply far down
She forgot how to smile and wore only a frown
Was she not worthy of love and deep affection?
Was it so hard to send any towards her direction?
She slowly withered away to be seen no more
No longer the girl she was once before
She emerged from the small she had now become
Shedding the shell she had wiggled herself from
Her wings started to spread and soon take flight
Once she realized darkness turns to light
You must only weather in hiding for so long
Before you allow yourself to fly and again be strong
Strength within is often hard to find alone
When within the years it is all you have known
But when faith is once again presented to you
Love finds way to the heart and breaks through
You soon become a butterfly, your wings are spread
You have emerged into something beautiful instead