The Child That Life Forgot

There was once a happy child

That used to run and play

With her mother and her father

Every single day

Such a happy family

Were all of them together

They had the kind of love

That lasts until… Forever

They used to run along the beach

And used to walk the park

They loved each other in the light

And even in the dark

She was such a happy child

Well, with all the love she got

But little did she know

She’d be the child that life forgot

On a morning like no other

Grief befell her soul

She just could not believe

What she had just been told

Her parents whom she loved so much

Had died the night before

And then and there she understood

Why she didn’t hear the door

The two things she loved most in life

Were torn away from her

And so she was consumed by grief

For her parents were no more

The only child of only children

She had no one but them

Grandparents had long passed away

And she was only ten

She often wished that just perhaps

She'd died with them on that tragic day

Or that they tucked her in that night

And so her skies would not be grey

Now she’s all grown up

But there’s still a hole inside

And that thought just never left her...

The thought that they had died

She realised quite soon

That the past could not be changed

Her helplessness consumed her soul

As her eyes became enraged

“How could someone be so thoughtless

And kill my mother and father?"

"Did he ever stop to think

That at home they had a daughter?”

She’s shed a million tears by now

And she knows she’s lost a lot

She now knows that she’s the child…

The child that life forgot

© José V. Guerra Awe