as a young girl she followed
in her sisters footsteps because
all little girls need a role model.
she began to find lipstick imprints
and long scratches on skin and
sometimes not only her own.
she was so confused as to why
she had these marks and why all
of her friends had them too.
so when she went to go ask them
she opened the door and a thick
smoke had filled the entire room.
                              "Get O U T!"
the sister shouted, and without
a second to think she ran into her
room pulled out a journal and
wrote down how much she shreeked.
when her sister didn't want to to
talk, she asked some girls at school
exactly what her sister was doing.
the girls smiled and laughed and
soon asked her over so they could
show her what it was all about.

she coughed and coughed and
layed down in bed and she asked
                      "I've never even kissed a boy."
the girls only laughed as hecame
in the room and the girls closed the
door and walked away. she said
it was a sin, but a sin can be forgiven
if she goes to church this sunday.
after all, her sisters friends come every
sunday morning an hour early
to pray.