For Her

Take her youth, it's only the beginning

All her life, all she's known are endings

Stolen peace - changed for all time

Forever altered, broken child



I cannot cry, your ocean of tears for you

Take my hand, you know that I love you

You were a child, he ripped from you your innocence

Shame written in blood, written by his ignorance

Your inheritance, a river sixteen years deep

You saved my life, you kept me safe from him

Time to grieve, you never had the chance to

Time to mourn - for what he took from you



How can she sleep with burning in her mind?

She can no longer see to write, the page obscured by pain

In her mind she recreates the scenes of tears

Cast in fire, wasted bitter years