X:If Only She Just Knew

There's a child that I am close to
A girl with golden hair
But when she asks all these questions
It becomes more than I can bear.

In the last cold rays of sundown
She looks me squarely in the eye
And as she reaches out for my hand
She says "Is it true that children die?"

I feel my conscience crawl down my back
For I don't know how to respond
Because whatever words I seem to say
They always come out wrong.

I feel a sense of anger
I feel a sense of loss
I feel the weight of sadness
And the shifting of the cross.

She's sleeping now in silence
And I ponder what to do
And I'm awake all night fretting
And if only she just knew.

She leaves me a letter
By the side of my empty bed
With some drawings and some painful words
It's the saddest thing that I've ever read.

Her time on this world seems so short
And she seems like a baby still
But I've never treated her as such
And I know I never will.

She just seems so vulnerable right now
With the shadow of death as a cloak
And like all of us it holds her prisoner too
So these were the words that she spoke:

"I hear what you are saying
But I know that it's all just a lie
And could you please leave my room right now
Because I don't want you to see me cry."

I can see her glittering future
But she won't see my point of view
I think if only she could see her potential
If only she just knew.