To Never Know, by Julie Achilles

I was just sixteen, too young, they said.

My Life had always been in turmoil, or was that just an excuse?

I looked for love, security and happiness, I found none, instead,

I found fear, sadness and self-destruction.

They took her as she was born, by accident I heard a girl.

In my head I named her, Rose.

Now I am sixty-one and I never knew what happened to Rose, did she have a better life than me? I Hope so, but, I resgn myself that I will never know.