Monday Musings [7] - To Love And To Be Loved

Seven years old and her parents, they fight at night

When they think she’s sleeping ‘cause she turned off the lights

Momma wasn’t very strong and it wasn’t very long

‘Fore the doctors said there was fault with her lungs

Fast forward nine tough years, her daddy, he likes his beers

He’s drowning in his liquor and she’s drowning in her tears

One day he leaves her a note and he just disappears

No girl should be left with nothing but her hurt and fears

School somehow loses all its importance

And she’s working without any experience

She’s trying so hard to get by

But something inside her has died

Couple more years and a few times fired

Past admitting that her situation is dire

Now she’s living in her beat-up car

Thinks she’s maybe gone too far

And she’s got no one except this one guy

Who slicks back his hair and thinks he’s fly

He likes to take her for a walk once in a while

Tells her that he just wants to see her smile

Pretends to be gentlemanly

But he’s not nice company

You can tell by the bruises

And the alcohol he abuses

You could say she’s used to it

But does that really excuse it?

She’s lost so much and still she loses more

When a father ends his child’s life before it’s born

Now she’s living with a broken heart

Thinks that she’s maybe gone too far

One day her man stumbles through the dark

To find her but she’s missing from her car

There’s a note

Something she wrote

With tear stains all over the crumpled paper

‘Cause it reminded her of the dad who left her

It doesn’t say much but it says enough

She says she just wanted to be loved

And to love

He passes out drunk after crying for a bit

The next morning they find her in a ditch

The man in uniform, he shakes his head

He’s lived life and seen a lot of dead

But this girl does something to his soul

And later that night when he goes home

He wraps his arms around his little daughter

Tells her that he’s gonna be there for her

And he grabs his wife and he holds her close

Says honey, do you know that I love you so

She smiles and for him it’s enough

Just to love and to be loved

-t.h.
written: 31/07/17