SHE WAS THE BLACK SHEEP
THEY ALL AGREED
SO MANY MISTAKES,
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE
THEY JUDGED AND WHISPERED THINKING SHE COULDN’T HEAR
THEY MADE HER STRONGER OVER THE YEARS
THE UNWRITTEN RULES WE ALL HAVE LEARNED
YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE SWEEP THEM UNDER THE MAT AND ARE PUT TO BED
HURT, NEGLECTED, ABUSED AND WISHED SHE WAS NEVER BORN
SHE PUT ON A SHELL THAT COULDN’T BE TORN
HARDENED BY THINGS DONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
TO HORRIBLE TO SAY, BUT THEY SAID IT WAS HER FAULT
WHY THINGS HAPPENED SHE COULDN’T UNDERSTAND
SHE WOULD RUN AWAY AND CLOSES HER HEART
STRANGERS LEAD HER TO DARKENED DOORS ONCE AGAIN, SCARED AND IGNORED STEPPED ON,
TAKING WHAT WAS SHE COULD FIND FOR THE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS LEFT HER BLIND CALLOUSED AND MANIPULATIVE
SHE FOUND IT WAS TRUE THE HORRIBLE PERSON THEY SAW … IT WAS TRUE SHE HAD BECOME A HORRIBLE SITE
NOW SHE COULD NOT STAND LIVING IN HER SHELL
ONE AFTER ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP FAILED
DRINKING AND LYING BECAME SECOND NATURE LOOKING FOR BITS OF HAPPINESS IN WHATEVER SHE FOUND
THIS PERSON SHE BECAME, SHE HATED AND DROWNED IN SMOOTH, INTOXICATING NIGHTS AND CHOICES SHE’D DREAD AWAKE IN THE MORNING,
AFRAID AND BROKEN LIFE GOES ON AND IT SEEMS THINGS NEVER WOULD CHANGE
BUT IN BROKENNESS AND FORGIVENESS SHE FOUND SALVATION THROUGH WORDS, DREAMS AND WORRY, THE THORN IN HER SIDE
SHE WALKS WITH A MEMORY OF WHAT SHE ONCE WAS
STEPPED ON, PUSHED ASIDE
UNMASKED SHE IS ALIVE STRONGER AND READY TO ACCEPT HERSELF
GROWING IN LOVE AND OUT OF THE SHELL
REJOICING AND LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME