She had become a pale wraith Just a ghost of the girl gone Blondness and whiteness faded into one Dead already But not yet really Still breathing But with no heart beating Nothing warm or filled with love Just the pinch of the needle Stinging in her arm Her only smile For that pleasure But that too would soon be gone And she would be cold and still And she would wait in her bed Frozen like a statue Waiting for someone to find her And consign her to the ground