Flower Girls

Teddy-bear Day-dreams Of a Flower girl Full of Blue eyes, White lies And a Smile I see Everywhere I go- Her ghost Is good at Haunting And she Left A long time Ago But I see her Again, Not in some Mirror-whisper But in other Flower girls With their Teddy-bear Dreams: This one Wears a Sweatshirt Like a Shield; That one Disappears Into songs So she can Ignore How her Tummy Rumbles When she Sleeps- She doesn't eat- If there is One thing That the first Flower girl Taught me It's that I can't Save Everybody But I can devote Myself To the Little things And maybe Make One Of those Flower girls Happy…. To my little one- Please Help me Succeed in Keeping This flower girl From Following In your footsteps, Becoming Another Memory I have to carry- I don't Believe In God Anymore But I'll pray To you, My Ghost-guardian Of an Angel…. Please Keep these Flower girls Safe For me- I'm quickly Running out of Space In my Trash cans- They're already full From all the Razor blades I've had to Confiscate This week- I remember When you Were Just a phone call Away; Now you’re Just a Voicemail I can’t seem To come to terms With Or delete, But, Teach me How I can be Better Than when I was Just with you So my inbox Isn’t full With fates Lined up, In a cue Waiting to be Just like you. I can’t let go, So it seems I’ll be the one To carry All their pain On my shoulders But If it saves them From themselves Then so be it. Amen In the name of a Flower girl I can’t forget.