Born to a pair of child parents, <br />a young girl too fell at sixteen <br />madly in love, or so she thought, <br />with an impish freckled face <br />and a pair of pale blue eyes. <br /> <br />He, at twenty-one, found her <br />vulnerability attractive at first, <br />but soon tired of her neediness <br />and eagerness to please <br />and left for pastures greener. <br /> <br />She, devastated and forlorn <br />and hurting so hard she couldn't <br />bear the agony and despair, <br />ran the bath and swiftly stole <br />the blade from daddy's razor. <br /> <br />But just before the deed was done <br />in a gesture of unusual maturity <br />she phoned the local lifeline. <br />Sadly, the line was busy <br />but happily, the young girl - laughed.<br /><br />Alison Cassidy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-young-girl-laughed/
