by Isabelle Schless
She says as she begins to cry
But how can this be the end?
I've never even been alive
She closes her eyes to the world
She's only one little girl
All I wanted was to see
She says I'm only one little girl
So this is what its like to laugh
She says as she starts to cough
She even tries to crack a grin
She tries to talk as she wrecks her lungs
Isn't it funny she says aloud
I'm laughing in my burial shroud
I never knew she says in a hush
I didn't think it'd hurt this much
She shuts her heart to her world
Shes only one little girl
She says I all I wanted was to love
I guess that was asking a little too much
She says this isnt the way it was supposed to be
I was told life was about being free
This isn't who it was planned
She says one more time
I never got to live my life
And the voices whisper in her ear
Thats how life works my dear
We learn to play on all you fear
She says, but thats not fair
And so she learned the lesson on being alive
But only after she'd laughed and died
And so she says again to the world
I was only one little girl
I was only one little girl
Who open opened her heart to the world
She says, as she begins the eternal sleep
And the world wasnt kind to me