The path leading there is strewn with thorns,
And there each day, a little girl mourns
For the lost love and the pain she has endured,
To which she can never be fully inured.
That is why she built the wall,
To protect her from the evil fall.
You see, she made a fatal mistake,
Let humans into her life to break
The heart she so innocently gave
As a gift, for those she loved to save.
People lied, teased, and abused her,
Until the tears her vision did blur.
With her books, she ran away,
While all the others went off to play.
The books provided an escape
From the reality she just could not take.
She imagined she could build a wall
Over one-thousand stories tall.
Behind that wall, her heart would hide,
With the rest of the world on the other side.
The girl was safe for years and years,
Locked away from all of her fears,
Until that one fateful day,
When the wall began to give way.
Someone hammered away at the stone,
Until a crack appeared and the wall moaned.
No matter how hard the little girl tried,
Each day apart the wall he pried.
He would not give up, he must have his way,
There was nothing she could do or say.
When he broke through she shied away
From the love to her he offered that day.
But over time, her trust in him grew,
Until she chipped the wall away too.
Now together do both stand
In a very faraway land,
Where no one can sever the bond they do share,
And their hearts are mended; they will not tear.
For eternity there they will reside,
In the Land of Love, where once a little girl cried.