Different Brokeness

Just a girl for a moment

just a girl for a breath

because this moment

is all she has left.

Her time was stolen

by an untimely thief

a heartless man

with odd, crooked teeth.

This man had been broken

this man had been lost

but he took it out on her

all for a cost.

The cost was on her

and certainly not on him

for she was always subject

to his every whim.

The girl she was broken

the girl she was lost

but in that pain she was kind

even though she'd been tossed.

With a heart so large

and a soul so soft

she took to the sky

she was born aloft.

All of her pain

came to an end

she'd always been told

of the light around the bound.

When she reached that day

she saw the face

the face of her family

she had left in disgrace.

She found their arms warm

she found their arms kind

she was free from her pain

and out of her mind.