Invisible Til Death

You never thought to ask her
What was going on
Not even when you saw her walking to school
With her head bent down low
And that gruesome bruise blooming
Purple on her cheek

You didn't even wonder
Why she always covered her body
And never let anything show
You never even thought about it until the day
That everything changed for that girl

Now on this wet and cloudy day
You stand over where she now rests
And Slowly read what her tombstone says,
"To the girl that no one cared enough about to ask what was wrong and if she needed help."

You start to cry,
Knowing that you should have asked
Or even told somebody
Even if you didn't know her.
You could have helped save her life.

But you can't change anything now
But you swear that the next time
You see someone like her that you'll help
So then you slowly place the lily
Where she now rests
You turn around and walk away slowly
On this wet and cloudy day.