• She was so thin and pale
    Never touched by the sun
    So fragile and frail
    I couldn't think of what they'd done

    Long black hair framing her face so fair
    Blue eyes, wide and afraid, and........ aware

    So young and afraid
    She's viewed real horror
    And she was never jaded
    By those things she didn't care for

    She's seen the real world
    She's seen what really does happen

    Those haunting eyes with so much knowledge
    Faced a world that doesn't care
    Unless they can stare her down and judge
    The person she is by what happened there

    She faced us all without any fear
    She'd already seen worse

    She lived through all that pain
    She forgot how to feel
    Never let tears fall down like rain
    Even though it was all so real

    She lived through it
    She never gave up

    Today I look at my children
    All wide eyed and innocent
    Asking what happened then
    Even though I'm so weary

    So I look at them all
    And finish my story

    I can't forget my little girl
    She looked at me and just asked
    "Momma, how you still spin and twirl
    And act happy

    After everything he did to you?"
    I just looked at her and said
    "Deary, we move on and never hold on to
    What is and what never was"

    When her grandparents asked her how she was
    All she told them was
    Today I saw real sadness
    Hiding in Momma's eyes