My Girl

I know of a girl whose eyes hold a multitude of secrets

If you ask her she'd smile and whisper that it's the memories of a past life

Sometimes I'd see tear tracks on her cheeks but a smile tugging at the corners of her lips

I could never figure out what she's thinking

She's shrouded in loneliness but surrounded on all sides like a rose in a glass case left behind in a greenhouse 

Grace personified, she wore her pain like armour against the many storms of life

She was always so tragic yet beautiful all at the same time

I could never understand her

Dancing under the rain with reckless abandon laughing with scorn at everything under heaven

Her mass of auburn curls curling around her temple her teeth chattering from the cold winds, eyes ablaze

I knew life was never fair but to her it was like the universe had a vandetta 

She sacrificed everything for deep love but cried her self to sleep at night

It was never worth it and the consequences tore her heart apart

Yet she always shows a smile, beatific and warm but hides who she is in the dark 

Sometimes I wish I could grab her by the shoulders and yell at her to cry

To destroy that strong facade and hold her in my arms

To purge her soul of every memory that streaked across it making her weary, snuffing out her light

If i could I'd shield her from every struggle and protect her with all my might

I'd wade war with her ghosts, swallow her pain and show her how it feels to be loved again

I know of a girl who takes residence in all the corners of my heart

And has made a home in the recesses of my mind