Dark schemes, meticulously planned,

Those who understood, could not understand

The anniversary of her birth returned

Any thought or concern for others spurned

 

Mediocrity took her by the hand

Those who understood, could not understand

Readying herself for life’s divorce

Yearning to travel a different course

 

Prescription tablets relished though bland

Those who understood, could not understand

A distraught paramedic attended,

Attempting all as her darkness descended,

 

It seems senseless now to reprimand.

Those who understood, could not understand.

She had no reason, she had no care,

What in life did she consider to be so unfair?

 

As loving parents, we felt damned

Those who understood, could not understand

Though we cried she neither saw nor heard,

Green eyes dead, neither dimmed nor blurred.

 

There was no explanation, she couldn’t expand

Those who understood, could not understand

There was no breeze from life's last breath,

Nuzzled deep into the arms of death.

 

If only we could reverse the timers sand

Those who understood, could not understand

Our love for her was singularly exclusive

Did she consider her life unloved, to be unlived?

 

Seventeen years of nurture to adulthood

We fully believed that we understood 

Blowing birthday candles out today as planned 

But now she’s gone, we will never understand