Belated Goodbye to a Beauty Queen

[Laura]

Belated Goodbye to a Beauty Queen
for JonBenet Ramsey

who are you little girl
surely you've lost your way
somewhere downtown there was a man
calling my name I thought I saw your face
in the sidewalk
it was painted with chalk and I heard your
unlistenable screams

were you trapped underneath too long?
it could have been 10 minutes, 10 days, 10 months, 10 years
10 decades and it would have been
too late to bring you back
too late to bring my sympathy

your face still haunts me and no doubt
your closure will not come to be forgiven
not in my mind
no one knows the truth and I am sure
you are about to cry once more

and your tears will go unnoticed
meshed in the harsh rain
it could be snow but it can't snow white
with your golden curls gone from the air



I can't help the feeling
sinking deeper in my throat
I thought I could have met you
taken your hand and swung you around
little girls are never too old to take a ride
in a sisterly like hand
holding, clenching and never letting go
someone should have been watching

when you left the show
after dark after night
I hope you sleep well
I'm sure it's hard

when do ghosts sleep and where
where do they go?

I ask you to answer me,
porcelain beauty Queen
you could have been so much more
than a face on the screen.

and you were.
[you were]

you were so much more than that.

[thecrazybeautiful]

I love this. All of this. It's such a sad story, but this sums up the beauty that the girl was, and could have been.

I don't even really know what to say.

[Isabela]

I like how you put feeling into what you wrote. And how you're relating to true things that have happened. Makes you stop and think, I like that!