There's A Girl ((In Nebraska and She's Wonderful))

by StandStill   May 31, 2008


There's a breeze that blows in Nebraska,
it carries the smell of summer-filled rain.
And there's a girl up there in Nebraska...
I'm not quite sure I understand her pain.

God only knows she's the answer-
the answer to my prayers of midnight fear.
I always prayed for an amazing best friend,
the kind of best friend I seem to have found here.

Did you know that in the middle of nowhere
there lives a girl with dark brown locks of hair?
Her pretty dark eyes sparkle with life,
but did you know that there's sadness burried there?

Swings of a playground somewhere I've never been,
they sway gently back and forth in the breeze.
They sit on a playground where a little girl grew up.
She never had a life filled with perfect ease.

Some place between all the corn fields,
there's a girl who tries her best to get by.
And my God, does it kill me when I know
that there's a pretty little tear in her eye...

She listens to songs about love and pain,
trying to understand the world through headphones that are green.
She seems to only ever find the questions
while the answers continue to go unseen.

She doesn't understand that she's wonderful.
She doesn't seem to see she's a shooting star.
She can't see through my eyes, I suppose.
One thing I hate in this world are her scars.

Reminders of car crashes in the misty past;
guilt trips that lead to blood shed.
Holding her hand while I'm yelling at her-
just trying to get this into her head.

Somewhere in the heart of the U.S.
a wonderful girl sleeps tonight.
I pray for sweet dreams to my girl in Nebraska;
Darling, it's going to be alright.

**It's not enough, Tay. But I couldn't get the first stanza out of my head. So..I love you. We'll beat this world and make it work for us. One day closer..one day closer.**

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  • 16 years ago

    by Megan

    I really liked it, its really cute :)
    your way better at writing poems then me.
    you did a very good job!! :)

  • 16 years ago

    by Brenda

    Hey! hey! hey! i live in nebraska =)

    i really did like this poem. you amaze me, because i could never write anything so long. if i tried, it would start off as a poem about poohbear and end in a poem about peter pan. so yay to you, for writting great poems! it was really good. the words were perfect, and you described friendship and practically put in a bottel!

    P.S- im clapping right now =)

  • 16 years ago

    by claire

    I love this poem - it's like a love poem, but anyone who has a true best friend (including me) can totally relate =)

  • 16 years ago

    by Sarah

    Beautiful .. simply beautiful ! Well written & beautifully penned 5/5

  • 16 years ago

    by Kayla

    Wow, hunni.... this poem was absolutely amazing. I could tell you put your heart and soul into writing every single line. It was beautiful, stunning, incrediable, and I believe it to be one of your best. Everything about it was just so realistic.. I could imagine the playground, the girl, the headphones, and just... well, everything. It's especially realistic to me because I KNOW who it's about. None of it was made up. It was all real.

    God only knows she's the answer-
    the answer to my prayers of midnight fear.
    I always prayed for an amazing best friend,
    the kind of best friend I seem to have found here.

    ^ I think everyone in our little p&q family can relate to this stanza in particular. We have all seemed to have found people so amazing on this site. And just the way you worded it.. omg, it ended up being my favorite stanza out of the entire piece. This was sweet but in some ways, a heart tugger for me. The part about guilt trips actually brought tears to my eyes.. because she's just too amazing to ever think about hurting herself. It's horrible, but I hope someday, with your help, she will see how wonderful she truly is and will stop.

    Great job, Gabby. As I said above.. this has to be one of your best poems yet. I touched my heart and I just fell in love with it. It was realistic, relatable, touching, and amazing. I also think you should take your own advice, hun. Because to us, these two lines are also about you.

    She doesn't understand that she's wonderful.
    She doesn't seem to see she's a shooting star.

    Hehe.. I love you dear. An actual 5/5 from me XD 5/5 <3 <3 <3 <3

    ~Kayla~

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