She Wants To Dream

She cries from a place
That hurts deep inside
Her pain echo’s in my heart
I have seen the child
Who has no hope
Who sits in the back of a dirty car
Looking through the dirty windows
Seeing the kids she knows from school
Hanging out with nothing better to do
As she rides back from the fields
The fields that are stealing her youth
And robbing her of hope
She knows the names they call her
The things they say about her
And she tells herself that she doesn’t care
What they say or think
But the truth is sticks and stones
May break your bones
But words
Words can cut you forever
She lies awake with tears in her eyes
She wants to dream

But her dreams have run dry