The Girl They Didn't See
But when no one was watching,
She laughed a little loud,
Spoke faster than she should have,
Forgot how to be proud.
With friends, she bent the rules a bit,
Ran barefoot, scraped her knees,
She asked the questions out loud
She never asked on bended knees.
Alone, she filled her notebooks
With poems and songs she couldn’t sing,
Built worlds inside her messy head,
And found a voice in everything.
She wasn’t only silence,
Or the girl they thought they knew;
She held a thousand versions,
And every one was true.
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