Once Bright and Marvellous

Once Bright and Marvellous

What happened to that happy girl

The one I used to see

She’d smile at me and skip along

So grateful and so free

Positive, her disposition

A joy to be around

Intoxicated by her spirit

A pleasure always found

As time went on and she grew older

Her joy became deflated

Some bad mistakes, experience

She did some things she hated

Her countenance, her joyfulness

Soon withered deep inside

Replaced by negativity

From this she couldn’t hide

Still she’d smile and try to be

The girl that she once was

But thoughts would drag her back inside

And this was all because…

She’d lost herself in contemplation

Controlling all she was

The fire gone, now embers left

She stopped fighting the cause

The cheerlessness, the dreary days

Once bright and marvellous

Just one thought had multiplied

Her joy became as dust

THE END