A Lifetime
There was once a baby girl
And she was always in pain
She needed to be held
And sometimes things were okay
There was once a little girl
And she was very bright
She needed to sing in order to understand
And sometimes things were okay
There was once a school aged girl
And she was bullied
She needed to feel like she belonged
And sometimes things were okay
There was once a seventh grade girl
And she cut every night
She needed to leave the world alone
And things were never okay
There was once an eighth grade girl
And she was broken apart
She needed the people who’d sew her together
And she tried to be okay
There was once a ninth grade girl
And she was slowly healing
She needed to find a way out of the habits
And she was mostly okay
There will be a young lady
And she will be healed
And she’ll only need to work hard
And she’ll always be okay
There will be a woman
And she will have forgiven
But she needs to never forget
And she’ll make sure her kids are okay
There will be an old lady
And she will be about to die
She need only to remember how glad she was for her life
And she will be okay.