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A Hand to Hold
Her painful cry
 without a lend-ed ear
 such pity cast out
 yet no one is here.
 
 Her stomach now plump
 but there he stays,
 her breasts now swollen
 but she smiles each day.
 
 Laughing, beaming
 not a care in the world;
 but looks are deceiving,
 when the truth is unfurled.
 
 She lays awake
 at the edge of her bed
 wanting, praying.
 But she's already dead.
 
 Can it be that she's
 only a child.
 But now she's left,
 quiet yet wild.
 
 A silent strength
 she daily weeps
 i see it on her face,
 but my words never seep.
 
 It pains my heart
 to see her this way.
 But there he is
 day after day.
 
 I know she'll be fine,
 but I still worry.
 And I'll let her live
 even with fury.
 
 God gave her a name,
 now where is her face?
 Gone in the hollows
 after life's race.
 
 Her hair falling out
 but her stomach still swelling.
 Her eyes are sinking,
 in this place that she's dwelling.
 
 I made a choice,
 so they took her away.
 And oh how i regret it
 day after day.
 
 A ring on her finger
 a little hand to hold.
 He was always right there,
 from young and to old.
 
 He gave her home
 what it truly means.
 Love, and warmth
 even joy, as it seems.
 
 Who would have guessed?
 That this blessing was horror?
 But now she triumphs
 from the feeble to explorer.
 
 That's what i would say,
 if she had been a little stronger.
 But now here i am,
 withholding a little longer.
 
 A child's cry
 without a mother.
 Now he's gone,
 with another.
 
 A ring on her finger,
 with no hand to hold.
 Is this what its like?
 To slowly turn cold?
 
 I cried, but I will live.
 for that little hand to hold.
 I'll do what she never did,
 I'll strive to be old.

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