BEAUTIFUL GIRL   

I knew a girl, she was a world
Contained and complete
In her dream was a gleam
There were jewels at her feet 

And she wrote the names of the poets
High up in the sky
In her hand she held a talisman
Against false words that die 

Yes she was a beautiful girl
She tried to be someone else
An undisguised foot soldier
In undeclared war on herself 

And she knew the dealer man
With his roses for the poor
Who knew he could make her wait
Huddled in his door 

Her mother said what's wrong with you
Her father held up his hand  
“Tell us what’s wrong with you,
We don't understand…” 

And snared in deep slavery
In each form and abyss
She lived beneath the storm
Beyond each stranger’s kiss 

Her days grew to cruelty
You know she couldn’t quit
She walked the streets
A bleeding beast, she never got over it   

Yes she was a good girl
Tender beneath her pain
She bargained hard for her sanity 
And vanished like the rain 

I knew a girl, she was a world
Contained and complete
In her dream was a gleam
There were jewels at her feet 

As roses reach forever
In wild sprays untamed
I'll seek her face forever
And always call her name