Two Separate Lives

A girl,

Carefree and beautiful,

Smiling and dreaming,

Living and flying,

Leaping and dancing,

Joyful and cheery,

Happy and bubbly,

Innocent and whole, 

And then there’s

A girl,

Dark-sided,

Miserable and anguished,

Shattered and broken,

Only surviving,

Suffering ever so silently,

Crying and weeping 

For all that’s been lost,

Alone and forgotten,

Dying and collapsing 

In the arms of the sweet,

Sympathetic ground,

Screaming and whispering

Words no one can hear,

Searching for a light

In the blackness 

Of a crumbling,

Charcoal heart;

A life worth living,

And a life not worth saving.