FALLEN ANGEL

Her life has been hell, right from the start.
from a broken home to a broken marriage, and it broke her heart.

So she started drinking night after night,
and she soon lost all sense of wrong and right.

She spent her nights in a bar, and from there to the arms of a stranger,
whom used her as he pleased and without a goodbye left her.

The lady never dreamed her life would turn out this way,
but that has become her existence day after miserable day.

Her age was 24, but to look at her you couldn't tell,
she had lost her youth and beauty because of this private hell.

One day she looked in the mirror, and the tears began to flow,
all those months alone had finally taken it's toll.

She sold her body that night for the very last time,
she rented a hotel room, and bought a bottle of wine.

She went into her room, and locked the door,
and turned up the bottle, thinking "I can't take this any more".

There alone, sitting in a corner in the dark,
another fallen angel died from booze, and a broken heart.

John Hodgson