How Can People Be So Mean?

Creating a spark to make a fire
Tracing the gasoline
Reoccurring nightmares about that night
How can people be so mean?

The fire trickled so slowly
Making my heart stop
The lose of breath
Made my stomach drop

Tears blurring my vision
My stomach still churning
I couldn't do anything
As I saw you, my best friend, burning

I couldn't say a word
Just listen to you scream
Please, God, tell me
How can people be so mean?

I wish I could have saved you
But I was only eleven
I tried to tell myself
That soon you'd be in heaven

You told me why you didn't want to live
Why you have to die that night
You said it was because of your dad
And how you always fight

You told me how he used to hurt you
Whipping you with his belt
You told me how the bruises
Were something normal you felt

You, my best friend, left me
All because the last thing he did
Why are people so mean?
You were only a kid

How could he touch you like that?
And make your insides hurt
How could he rape his little girl?
I didn't know people could be such perverts

You were thirteen
Holding in things that are hard to believe
Now that you're gone
I'm missing a part of me

I can't seem to be happy
Because once you left there was only me
And now I feel the heat
To an intolerable degree

Because once you left, dear sister
I felt my insides hurt and I felt his bruise
Dad came after me this time
And now I'm the one abused

So I'll create the spark this time
Now that I'm thirteen
But before I go, tell me God
How can people be so mean?

(This is resubmitted)