A shallow world

She lived in a shallow world

short of hope and happiness

unaware of the things she had missed 

for all the things she desired

All she wanted was love 

and someone to express it

she found many in dreams

but none in wicked real

For real love was long lost

in this forsaken world

where pretense was a way of life

and falseness too common

All the years of shallowness

ringing into her ears

and now she lay in her deathbed

her soul full of tears

~©AR~