Today came too fast
It's time to depart
Although you are leaving
I will give you my heart

Everyday could be your last
If you return
With your scars
And your burns
I'll be waiting for you
There is nothing else to do

I'll pray every day
That you'll be okay
And when I close my eyes
I'll think of
You

Your life
Was a light to many
In this world

Your presence
A gift
To everyone in it

Your light burned bright
As you marched
Into the flames
To save
Your little brother
A life to give
A life to take

You were so young
Only 19 years of age
A time of beginnings
Became a time that slipped away

We will never understand
Why you had to be
There on that day
Of the explosion
It took everything from you

You died
Young
You died
Strong
And fought until the end
You died a hero
In a way we know
You'll never regret

Although
There may never come the day
In which we truly understand
Why God took you away
We will pick up
Rise from the ashes
And go on another day
Knowing that's the way
You would have it
I've never seen
Anything so tragic

All my life
Starting young,
I was told
How to act
How to sit
How to dress
How to talk
Like some robot

I hate to say it
But I'm human
I will make mistakes

I never knew who I was
Because I was always told who to be
And no one could ever understand
To the extent that I mean

Kids hated me
Said I was weird
Because wearing skirts everyday
Well, it was weird
But that was my life
Sheltered and nice

But corruption found its way inside
Like a serpent
I was a place for darkness to hide

I acted out
To make a stand
Became the rebel
That I really am
Took a knife to my skin
With crimson red
I turned my purity to sin

"Katherine"
It means pure, yknow
And there was a time
When I could have been

Pure
Is what my parents wanted me to be

Perfect
In the eyes of everyone
Except me

Strange
Ostracized in my own world

I doubt anyone could even imagine
All the pain I went through
I was a freak
With the face of an angel
So innocent
More like ignorant
But without bliss

I was the angel
Who never smiled
The angel
Who never spoke
The angel
Who cried in her room all alone
Even when I was
Just five years old
The angel with shackles
Clamped to my ankles
The chains pulled me to earth

I am an angel
With broken wings
And no one could ever
Feel empathy

There are things
Only a trained eye can see
While others
Go through life so obliviously

To see your loved ones
Die in a car crash
A thousand times
Dying over and over
Because the images just won't leave your mind

A body burning
In an oven
Begging for someone
To save him
The heat slowly eats
Away at his skin

An unknown person
Faceless
Nameless
Skinned alive
Lies in a meat cooler
Blending in with
the animals
Who shared the same fate

There are things
That only a trained eye can see
A pool of blood
With no visible source
The grim reaper
Has taken his hold on you
And you can't run
From these delusions
That plague
You