I know a girl She is kind and cruel Wild and cautious Secure and dangerous She prefers to run where most would walk Dance when most would talk Sing when most would write And tear apart the 'rules' of life And yet she is trapped She wants to scream To let rip the emotions In a terrifying shriek Louder than any wolf's howl And more terrifying than any mother bear But someone has captured her voice She wants to cry There are thousands of tidal waves Waiting to escape their flesh prison And cascade down her cheeks But something holds back her tears She wants to let all the words pour out To fill page after page with her dark twisted tale Like an author whose last lifeline is their work But someone took the pen out of her hand She is so beautiful Faeries dance in her eyes Darkness pools in her hair And power ripples off of her And deserves so much more than this But she can't see it She thinks she brought this upon herself She thinks the trauma The pain Is all deserved And I do not know what to do To help this girl I knew