Thirteen

Is it right

To leap for joy

While somebody’s tears

Pour?

 

Is it right

To be alright

While others

Are a corpse inside?

 

Is it right

I lived for thirteen years

While thirteen days

Was the time of another?

 

I’m still living

While she is not

How can it be right

That her body rots?

 

How could it be her time

Her time to leave the Earth?

Could it be that my life

Is of greater worth?

 

If all are equal

Why did she pass away

At such a young age

Thirteen days?

 

Thirteen years

And I continue to live

And her life is gone

How could something be that wrong?

 

I will never understand

Understand why

This girl’s life

Was denied