Just A Little Girl

~$#Please read this, I know it long, but please read it, it would mean a lot to me!!!#$~

Just a little girl
Just turned 6 years old
Just a little hope
That her mum will still be there

Her mother died 3 years ago
Her father left 2 years ago
This little girl is living off scarps
Scraps that were thrown in the garbage

This little girl does not have a home
This little girl, just wanders and romes
She sees the people, just walking past
And she hopes that maybe one day
Her mum will return again!

She refuses to accept the fact
That she has nothing left
She lives on and she lives strong
She knows there is something else out there

This little girl just wishes for a blanket,
So she can know a night without a shiver
She says she does not need a bed
She just wants some comfort
In her so far lost life

This little girl just wishes for some bread
Just the taste of food,
would that help her feel complete???
She says she does not want a spread
Just dry bread, that is all she wants

This little girl just wishes for someone
Someone who can talk to her
And listen to her pain
Someone who will understand
And tell her that it will all be ok

This little girl, now 17 years old
Living in dreams for 11 years now
Decides its time to give it up
This little girl is cutting her wrists
And sniffing paint on the streets
She is not looking for food anymore
She just wants cocaine

She does not want a blanket or bread now,
She wants alcoholic beverages
So that just for a few hours
She can forget the life she is living
She does not want someone to talk to
Now she wants someone that’s selling
Selling the drugs she is addicted to

This little girl
Isn’t little anymore
She is now 28 years old
And she lives 6 feet under
Because she lost the will to carry on

Just a rope, just a chair
That is something I never expected of her!

© Lucy Green

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