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So young and so pretty

So clean and strong

So free and happy

But this young soul

Knows what it is to belong

And how it feels to be whole

She knows how to live

She knows how to love

And she knows how to forgive

Oh, she knows how to weep,

What it is to lose love

And she still cries herself to sleep

Her heart holds a dream

And she wants to be free

But in herself she does not believe

She hides away

Not knowing who to be

Or what to say

She waits

For someone to find her there

She waits

she wants

For someone to really care

Oh, she really wants

And she is scared

She needs a helping heart

And she wonders if anyone ever cared

So she tries to let someone in

She tries really hard

She tries again to begin

 by Michelle Maartens