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Two: Sixteen

Two: Sixteen

-Sixteen-

On her sixteenth birthday

She was found

Curled up on the bathroom floor

Eyes still red and puffy

Smudged mascara fresh on her face

But with a silent heart

And dead eyes.

On her sixteenth birthday

She was found

After taking an oddly long time

Getting ready to go out to dinner.

She'd put light makeup on: her favorite lipgloss and mascara

Her hair was curled,

And she looked beautiful

In her new dress

That was now stained with blood.

But on her sixteenth birthday

She was found

Curled up

Lifeless

On the bathroom floor.

I guess all her candles

Blew out too soon.

Just sixteen years to the day

Was spent on this Earth

Until she gave up trying to be okay.

Her whole life ahead of her

Tragically cut short

By a broken heart

That couldn't see the point in beating anymore.