Child Inside

Somewhere inside you there still lives a child

She quietly weeps in the dark

You cannot release her

Yet you cannot heal

And it leaves you so hollow and stark

No one can touch her

No one can come near

She keeps her secrets with lock and key

She’s the good little girl

But bound to her fear

She is still hiding – she’s hiding from me

Who will this little girl trust

Somehow she knows that someday she must

The hands that took childhood away

How can we consign that to yesterday?

I see a woman so fine and fair

I am a man with a love to share

I can love that little girl too

I see the beauty inside you

Inside you