Suffering from a fate that someone else chose

Never having a place to call home

When she was in fact meant to be their rose

Daily struggles to find things as simple as clothes

Her stomach crying with hunger as she cried to sleep each night

Suffering from a fate that someone else chose

Joy and excitement - that's how this usually goes

Instead her arrival anger and disgust

When she was in fact meant to be their rose

Too young and too selfish to be parents, I suppose

Still they took the cowards way out leaving her on the side of the road

Suffering from a fate someone else chose

Her young life was filled with the greatest of woes

She had no one to shower her with love or protection

When she was in fact meant to be their rose

They say that from hardship, the best of all grows

Yet that hardly seems fair for such an innocent, young soul

Suffering from a fate that someone else chose

When she was in fact meant to be their rose