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Dandilions
Every morning 
 I look out my bedroom window
 and every morning 
 I see the little girl accross the street
 she walks accross her driveway
 in her scrap paper clothes
 with her bruised and cut up arms and legs
 But almost seeming 
 like she never knew about her wounds
 The litte girl picks up her dandilions
 and walks to the abandoned graveyard
 She lays a single dandilion on each grave as she sings....
 
     I may not be as pretty as you
 
     my life may stink
 
     and have no rules
 
     But it won't matter
 
     after this
 
     cause mommy snapped
 
     and so did her fists.
 And after she sang
 and gently layed down each dandilion
 the little girl walked home 
 as she did this
 she looked up at me
 and I looked down at her
 speachless
 and with a single
 tear in her eye
 the little girl knew
 she had to return home
 And with her brave 
 and inocent face
 she walked through 
 the doors of her home
 gave one lasts look over her shoulder
 smiled through her tears
 and then closed the door.
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