Jody

In her parents home in the high paddock she first saw the light of day From the nearest big city in kilometers by road far away A beautiful young country girl with curly locks of chestnut brown She was a primary school student in the quiet old country town Her childhood years they were happy cares from her seemed far away With her year old brother Jack her only sibling in the gum wood children games she did play These were happy years for Jody but as the wise one does say Happiness comes for a visit but with you may not always stay In her mid teens the lovely young Jody did hear voices in her head Her friends they thought it rather strange so much so when to them she said I can see god and the angels in paradise beckoning to me Their way of inviting me to come and join them where life of is forever carefree She told them she had visited heaven and it is such a beautiful place Free of guns and bombs and people of violence a smile there on everyone's face Her friends did not believe her stories thought she had been having them on But wisdom comes to us from hindsight we do learn from what has gone Her brother he found her in the wood hanging from the branch of a tree She had found her way to go to heaven though her death grief for her friends and family A kind and a beautiful person at a young age she took her own life She did not live for to raise children or become any man's wife.