"She Is Mine"

This is another song I wrote while I was in Africa. It's about a litte girl I met in a hospital our team visited a few times. She was a very small, fragile, and frail. She had no hair, a cleft lip, and an IV in the side of her head. One day we came, and she was up walking around having a great time with us. But the next day we returned and I found her asleep in a crib underneath covers as she was attached to a machine receiving her chemo. She looked so weak and so sickly. Her mother sat at her bed until it was time for her little girl to stand as the nurses came in to change her sheets. She stood there, naked, holding onto the railing of the bed. A scar all the way across her chest was exposed and her knees began to shake after a few minutes. You could see this had become routine for her. But no matter how routine it was, it was painful. Across the room from her sat another girl in her bed, looking much different. She was alert and excited. This little girl had been in the hospital for quite some time but was now being released due to her tremendous progress. The nurses and a few workers from a child's wish organization were there with her, giving her all sorts of presents to congratulate her on being well enough to go home. As she opened up new dolls and toys, I watched as my friend was barely standing, naked and weak and embarassed. My heart sunk right there in that moment. I remember almost not being able to stand there as I started to cry softly. I felt for her so much. I was jealous of the one who got to go home. And I just kept asking God in my head "What about her? What about this little girl! She's right here, God!" I was mad at the whole situation. But right then, in my head, I so vividly felt God say my name. He said something like "Melissa, she is mine. I see her too, and I've got her." So those words and her story inspired this song.

I walk towards her bed.
But all there really is to see,
a tiny body with no girl underneath.
Our eyes begin to meet.
And for one second I can feel
a love so painless, powerful, a love so real.

It was then I heard a voice so simply say,
She is mine, I see her too.
You cant fathom my love as she stands there for you.
Im holding her hand as her knees start to shake.
Ill sing her to sleep as she lies there awake.

Her mother looks scared.
Shes at the foot of her bed,
her hands are folded, so many thoughts in her head.
Its been so long since her child had her hair.
It hurts to see her daughter lying helpless there.

That same voice says it louder once again.
She is mine, I see her too.
You cant fathom my love as she stands there for you.
Im holding her hand as her knees start to shake.
Ill sing her to sleep as she lies there awake.

In that moment there is nothing,
nothing I wouldnt give
just to see her grow older with time just to live.
But the voice of a father quiets my words and says,

Shes always been mine, Ive seen her too.
You cant fathom my love for this child before you.
Shell still be mine, even if the light turns to night.
I promise Im with her, Im right by her side.
You cant fathom my love or what Im about to do.

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