This is written for Xakemii (Kim) as a very, very late birthday present – but I do hope she likes it, because she is just awesome :D This is also my first attempt at free verse so yeah, I'm pretty nervous.

You watch her from afar

Always

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Her long dark rusty hair,

Her blood-red lips,

Her ghastly broken smile

Which never reaches her face.

She is broken,

Torn,

Crushed.

And you can't help but

Hate those who did this to her.

Rabastan, Walden, Alecto

Lestrange, McNair, Carrow

Your blood boils at hearing their names

And if they weren't already dead

You would have killed them

Yourself.

You wipe away her tears,

You kiss away her scars.

She leans in your touch,

You rock her out of the world.

It takes her time,

To m-o-v-e on.

It takes her time,

To forget her scars.

It takes her time,

To s-m-i-l-e up.

You give her the time,

You give her the space,

But you're glad when she stops

Needing it

Because it's time she learns,

How to live again.