a song played as she entered the earth
and i wept.
it was more than six years ago,
but i think i can still hear it
and i know i remember the words:

"she was a gorgeous little girl
only 14 years with her mother's eyes
and her father's smile

and she was taken way too soon
life so full of promise full of light
but yet to be realized

and i raise my hands in anger
and wonder why you take the tender hearts
and leave the rest of us behind

but ours is not to question why
ours is just to live and try to settle for the answers
whatever they might be
until we see you face to face
in another time and place
where the river of your love runs free"