A girl I once knew

Today I want to write about this girl I knew

Not from a very long time ago

She was naive, gentle and a little gullible

With eyes as simple as a doe.

She always wore her charming smile

Her twinkling eyes were a thing

Her nonstop chatter was like music

I must say she had a zing!

Everywhere she went, she spread love

People loved having her around

She embraced all, small and big

Her love knew no bounds.

She loved to love and be loved back

And from a very tender age

She had dreams as big as Jack's beanstalk

That one day she'll reach a stage,

When she too will have someone special,

Who will love her beyond reasons

Who would mean more than the world to her,

Whose love wouldn’t change like seasons.

Dreaming with her rosy glasses on

One day she became a teen

Guys queued up behind her like her tail

But she couldn't find the special 'him'

But then one day, there was Magic!

And she found her first love in a friend

With him she had her first kiss and dance

She was so happy; you should have seen her then.

Her gait was always Skippy,

Her joy was beyond measure

In him she'd found the fortune of life

That she cherished and would always treasure

But little she knew about the cruel world

And the cruel strategies it schemed

It skinned her daily bit by bit

Peeled her charm while she screamed-

Screamed her lungs out for someone to hear

To pull her outta that pit

Into which her 'precious loves' had pushed her

Where she was only dead meat

And then somehow she climbed out

Wounded, bruised and scarred

Her glow was lost, her charm was taken

But she still had the strength to start

That doe eyed girl went missing since

But she managed to turn around

Although she never smiled the way she did

And her eyes were now just a pale dull brown.