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The Lost Child

February 24, 2013
By DestinyDarkle BRONZE, Roscommon, Michigan
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~"Everything is alright in the end. If it is not yet alright, it is not the end."
~"Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."

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Crimson red taints the knife,
What has happened to her life?
No rose, just thorns,
Why was she even born?
A little girl that never plays,
Can she ever be saved?
Days go by and by,
Eventually her eyes have dried.
Like a phoenix, she begins to rise,
from her own pathetic ashes.
She never really needed those guys,
she didn't pack, or look back.

© Hailey J., Lake Oswego, OR

The author's comments:
I was this little girl. The pressures coming at me from every angle to be perfect almost killed me. Everyone called me a nerd, a fatty, an emo, "pizza-face", and a freak, but I overcame it. You can rise, too.
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