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Her

In the deep deep shadows
Of a dark dark night
A girl walks the face of the earth alone
As if pulled by a string

She doesn't know where she's going
She doesn't know where she's been 
All she knows is what waits ahead 
Because of whom she is

People stare
And people mock
But the young one never stops
She knows something they don't know 
And something they never will
And so she carries on

She goes as far as humanly possible 
And then she walks some more
For she remembers the tale
She was told long ago down by the shore
Her mother had said 'My child listen closely
I will tell you of a land
Where you can find peace 
Where no one cries

And no one lies
No one mocks or shouts
A place where one can only go
If one has no real home
A place where you can be free
A place where you can roam
Somewhere you can be yourself 
With no one to judge you for it

So my child 
When I am called home 
Walk as far as long as you can 
And discover this place once more"

But her mother left
And she desperately needs
An escape from the life
She left behind 
The pain not even the drugs could hide

And so the young one walks 
And disappears forever more
For she has gone on to the place 
She was told by the shore.

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