They praised the girl for her quick wit
The girl they never knew
They said she won’t need help one bit
A fight, she’d never lose  

They said the girl spoke like she bit
The girl they thought they knew
They said she won’t run out of quips
A big ego that girl grew

“I’ll not once need help if I’m not weak”
Said the girl they never knew
“I’ll never say when they hurt me,
No matter how I’m bruised”

So that girl, she went to living
Like a false knight off to war
That girl, she hid each of her beatings
The pain, she would ignore

Sure on the surface the girl proved
The words so often said
That she would never once be moved
If insulted or made bled

Yet after every hard beat
She’d hide in rooms to sob
Each time the tears would repeat
She felt so weak and robbed

“They lied to me, those people did
I’m just a plain girl who still cries”
The girl who believed every fib
Every ego boosting lie

They shook their heads, so fast they did
At the girl they never knew
Why did they think that she equipped
The wits to never lose