Pain With No Gain
They all took a piece
Never asked
Never cared
Just take take and take
They took a piece of her today too
This one was more to the right
A bigger size
They all take pieces
Eventually there will be no more
they’ll move to another part
Until there’ll be no more of her
She wasn’t awful or dreadful
Only misfortunate
So there I saw her with missing pieces
There I saw her
I saw her cry
He took another piece
A new kind of piece
No longer hers, now
Everyone is taking a piece
She’ll soon be left with none
There goes one
Follows another
Piece by piece
She’s not herself
Piece by piece
Why won’t they stop
Piece by piece
No one would help
He didn’t
She couldn’t
They wouldn’t
There she was lost and cold
Maybe that dusty book on the shelf can
Maybe He can
Piece by piece
She read through it
She laid it down
A little peace
A lot of guilt
A good book but maybe another time
There’s no help for her.
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