A new life

Potential with no seeming end

A new beginning, no sign of strife

But to begin, however, is also to end

 

A military child

Moving from state to state

The change was wild

Just longing for father-daughter time, at least a single calendar date

 

School arrives

Back in Kentucky

A place to begin a life of lives

Boy, did the child feel lucky

 

Elementary, my dear

Grades k through five

Middle school grew near

With few friends, no matter how hard of a try

 

God and Academic Team provided solace

A place to belong with others

That was until she convinced herself that others know less

No one to befriend, no one and their mothers

 

Bullying is rough

Quite a burden to carry

She had had enough

Was life what she had hoped for? No, nary

 

High school was a new slate

A place with new friends

Acceptance at last, it was not too late

Such a new life never seems as if it ends

 

Now university approaches

A fearsome new existence

How the unknown ever encroaches

The life of lives, however, can now only be reached through persistence

 

The end to be announced

The end to be announced