• As she lays there,

    her heart slowly turns to stone.

    She hears voices all round her,

    but her ears begin to fail her.

    Tears run down her now pale cheeks,

    as she thinks about everything she will miss.

    She was going to high school next month.

    She was going to be a freshman.

    She never got her first kiss,

    She never got to see her family again,

    she never got to say good-bye.

    Her heart starts to beat slower and slower

    until it stops completely.

    One last tear slips

    through her eye

    as she closes them

    for the last time.