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A Pretty Soul by Gary L S West A pretty smile A pretty soul To look at her You'd never know Her heart was once An empty hole Just over a year before A lovely child Who grew too quick And slipped on paths That proved too slick Whose poor soul Became so sick And grew darker even more Her parents split Her father left And left her heart Of love bereft Her shattered hopes Her spirit cleft Tragedy befell the child In her anger Ran away Before she knew The price she'd pay Began to wish She'd thought to stay She'd thrown herself to the wild The things she did She'd never speak To earn her way Week after week Her future seemed So dark and bleak She'd come to accept her fate She turned to drugs To ease her pain Began to drink To hide from shame Resigned to lose And never gain She bore the world's whole weight Her apartment Her dark room Her TV glows Amidst the gloom Commercial ends The show resume Brother Graham begins to teach She takes remote Then sets it down Her jumbled thoughts Were spinning 'round Eyes filled with tears She fell to ground Her heart begins to reach So in her heart Christ found a home And pulled her from The hell she roamed He cleansed her soul She's not alone She's an angel taught to soar A pretty smile A pretty soul To look at her You'd never know Her heart was once An empty hole Just over a year before |
 This poem was a finalist in the August 2010 poetry contest |
Please contact Gary L S West at "callmetejas888@yahoo.com" to request permission to use this poem.