I see a flash
A sight to behold
The work of an immortal sculptor
Walking straight in elegant pride
Worth of a princess of the sun
Firmly transfixed in her twelve
Moving into the emptiness of an invalid society
Her innocence screaming
In an unchallenged clarity

And only twelve moons
The framework of her modelling salivates
Wolves in men
Who’s been exposed to the virus
Emerging from the bushland of their desires
To seek their vengeance in a fanatical hatred
And poor me the princess
With the sex lunacy roaming the streets
Sanity of abstinence is the greatest challenge

Swung from poverty to adolescence
A pendulum of fates
Hunger at home for the family
And her homestead a moonscape of desolation
The two hundred shillings does the trick
She trades out her innocence
And virginity too, a girls pride
And alongside the legal tender
Comes the virus
The minute monster
Savouring a society of huge minds

There is the tuberculosis
In a hospital ward
Full of undug graves and shrines unnamed
Drawn into the vacuum of her fate
Eyes wide open in dismal finalty
The princess
Lie in freeze frame of death
A pyramid of events
Moulded out of her last several terrible seconds
Lamentation for the society
A dull eulogy
For our girls