POETRY

She once was a normal girl

Birthday cake

13 candles 

Cake decorated with her happiness 

Blow out the candles

Wish for luck

You”ll need it

She once was a normal girl 

 

She dreamed of being an author

Getting to write her life stories

Little did she know she already was

She once was a normal girl

 

She sat in silence 

Up in the Secret Annex 

Where her life was trapped

Where days seemed endless

Waiting for death’s shadow 

To pass by her window sill 

She once was a normal girl

 

She wrote in a diary

To keep her mind off the war 

That was going on

On the field

And inside her head

She once was a normal girl

 

Pages worn thin

Pages filled with scribbles

What once was a present

Was now her best friend 

Kitty was worn in

Fitting into her hands perfectly

When she picked her up

Pen to paper

Let it all out 

Even those feelings of doubt 

She once was a normal girl

 

She had a faith 

That could not be explained 

After endless years in prison 

Anyone would be insane

She once was a normal girl

 

What was two and a half years

Aged her 10

Then she was discovered

She once was a normal girl

 

Freight Train

Which led to hell on earth

Life thrown to the wolves 

That would devour her

She once was a normal girl

 

One thing they could never take

Was her spirit 

Now she lives on through her story

As a simple memory

And we cry

When we think of her

She once was a normal girl