Amanda's Heart

And so she is alive tonight moonlight floods her room while every desire she dares to have hangs motionless in the air The tv is blaring in the very next room She doesn't hear a sound The children are having their big tea party She sits firmly set in her chair. The rest of the world thinks she's strong as steel but she will combust as straw She knows her emotions are boiling right over- her passion for living to bare. She closes her eyes to the moon and swallows her tears down her throat She pulls up a smile from her hopeful old soul And sees if there's tea left to share.