In a World of Lonely Cold

Do you know her?
That strange little girl?
With secrets so startling
it'd make your hair curl?

Every day she wakes up,
wishing she was dead.
She sees no reason to live,
and would rather die instead.

However, she hides her feelings
behind an emotionless mask.
She doesn't want anyone to know
that, in happiness, she'll never bask.

Her disguise is cunning
and almost impossible to break.
The girl's worst fear, though,
is that everyone will discover she's a fake.

She wonders is anyone would notice
if she were to disappear.
If anyone would bother to think
why she wasn't always near.

All it would take to end the pain
is one quick simple slice.
In a world of lonely cold,
Hell's fired would feel quite nice.

What always plagued her mind
was why she was so despised.
Why didn't anyone care for her?
They would when she demised.

She would show them all
when she left the hated land.
Prove to them all she needed
was a friendly, caring hand.

So one ebony black
and lonesome night,
she snuck into the kitchen
and closed the door tight.

She opened the cabinet
and withdrew a steel knife,
then wrote a letter reading,
"I couldn't stand my life."

She lowered herself
onto the cold, linoleum floor,
put the knife to her wrist,
then glanced towards the door.

"I hope your happy
for making my life Hell.
Now I fully hope, your guilt,
you can never quell."

Slowly, but surely, the knife
slashed across her wrist,
her suicide note
clutched tightly in her fist.

She slumped over onto the floor
without a sound to ruin her 'surprise'.
She didn't want her body to be found
until well past sunrise.

When her parents went downstairs,
they found their daughter cold and dead.
Speechless, they both collapsed,
for no words could be said.

As it really turned out,
she really was cared for.
It was too late, though,
for she was long dead on the floor.

During the funeral
people came together to lament.
Surrounding the girl's casket
were flowers that had been sent.

People cried and mourned
and wondered why she chose suicide.
Wasn't she happily religious
and God's rules, she'd abide?

As they lowered her into the ground,
they prayed, and on their knees, they fell.
It wouldn't do any good though,
for she was now forever in Hell.