Little Girl Lost

A funky little girl
She loves to make you smile
Dances, sings, and says silly things
Her friends are worth her while

Till one day she arrives
And everyone sees a change
Suddenly she’s grumpy
She’s been acting very strange

You can see that she’s been trying
Trying to do her best
But whatever’s been molesting her
Has left her in distress

The little girl begins a spiral
She’s been trying to get attention
Her teachers don’t know what to do
So they send her to detention

There she meets and intermingles
With other kids who command respect
Now she’s got a whole new crowd
It’s not what anyone had come to expect

They take her by the hand
And they lead her way astray
They sneak her in and out of rooms
Her hair and clothes in disarray

There are rumors flying ‘round the school
You call upon the “right” intellect
But you find it difficult to do a thing
Within a system so inept

Now the little girl is not so little
Her face shows wear and tear
Before you know it she is gone
To another group in disrepair

Every now and then you stop to think
You wonder what became of her
But for sanity’s sake you cannot dwell
If you hope to last another year.


-Marisol Tena (12/18/08)