Standing tall,
and smiling kindly,
through all the lies she keeps.
Walking fluidly,
and talking sweetly,
through all the darkness she sees.
A strong girl,
with an iron will,
is powerful to most,
but the iron-willed girl,
with a heart of ice,
cracks under a heavy burden.
She begins to shrivel,
as she becomes a woman,
in a terrible world so bleak.
She walks hastily,
and sweet words escape her tongue,
as darkness chokes her.
We've ruined her,
as we had been ruined before,
we do onto others,
as we have been done onto,
we take uniqueness and beauty,
then bury it deep to never see it again.