What do you expect,
from a girl who has only known lies.
From a person who knows hurt
better than she knows herself.

She's heard every line,
every single false statement.
Then the apology that follows,
ever so simply.

Do you expect her to trust,
without any doubt?
Without quivering at the thought
that history could repeat itself.

She has seen light turn to darkness
so fast that it left her shaking.
She has been broken and bruised,
so much that her body aches without reason.

And you expect her to smile,
to laugh,
to relax,
and to trust with no fear?

Then that is what she will try to do.
Because she will not fall.
She will not be beaten down.
She will get back up and dust herself off once again.

Because when she loves,
she loves with everything she has.
She is willing to give everything for the ones she loves.
She is willing to forgive.

Even if she loses herself in the process.

We see the child cry as he watches his father die.
Murdered by the state, forced to bow his head and accept his fate.

We see a mother's fearful roar as her child is sent to an unending war,
the boy who will never return. For his family's embrace he'll forever yearn.

We see lives torn apart, each person made to play their part.
Young lovers bid their tearful farewell, forced to stare into the depths of hell.

We see the innocents of war,


and do nothing.