A Pretty Soul

A tale of hope . . .

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