LITTLE GIRL LOST

LITTLE GIRL LOST

She was just a child of three, first girl in the family
to have golden curls and eyes of periwinkle blue.
She was safe and secure with a heart that was pure,
just loving life and delighting in all things new.

Then came the day that she was whisked away
and the endless searching for her was all in vain,
Broken in spirit, the family could not bear it
that they might never see their angel again.

Little girl lost, there's no counting the cost
of the loss that the family had to endure.
Reports of a sighting sent them out fighting
a fear that it was another, they had to be sure.

Twenty years past and the pain will still last,
she would be twenty-three on the first of May.
Somewhere in the nation, a quiet celebration
with the "parents" who took her far away.

Something's not right, she can feel it at night
when the new moon rises over the blue sea.
Once in awhile, when she sees someone smile,
there comes a glimpse of a very old memory.

She never will know that warmth or the glow
of love that her mother still feels in her heart.
She clings to her dream, someday to be seen
and remembered, never again to be apart.

Little girl lost remembers a brother who bossed
and a daddy that bounced her on his knee.
Just pieces of time, an old nursery rhyme
lingers deep in her mind, struggling to be free.

She searches for answers amid shadow dancers
that float in and out of her conscious thought.
Will she ever find any true piece of mind
when she learns what evil has been wrought?

Her "parents" obsession, a deathbed confession
came as she listened with tears in her eyes.
She tries to forgive for they taught her to live
with no regrets for saying their goodbyes.

The truth now known, she travels toward home
and the arms of a family long waiting there.
A bittersweet ending, two lives slowly blending
in answer to a little lost girl's fervent prayer.

Countrymom
3/9/07

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