Fallen Grace

Beauty Tonia, child of morning

Raised with love in careful hands

She grew where the table stayed open

Where prayers rose up with the dawn

Every room held a hand for guiding

Every road said child,

carry on

But the fire turned wild in her footsteps

And pride made a storm in the home

Words got sharp and doors started closing

Till she walked through the night alone

Oh Beauty Tonia, come back home The light was there though you

let go

Too young to fade,

too hurt to hold Your name still lives in every soul

She laughed like the rain on a rooftop

Then drifted too far from the truth

Bad choices pulled hard at her spirit

And dark nights kept stealing her youth

Still somebody waited and hoped there

Still somebody called out her name

But the years moved cold through the silence

And nothing was ever the same

If love could turn the wheel around

She would hear those voices now

If mercy reached beyond the grave We would lay these tears down

Oh Beauty Tonia, come back home

The light was there though you let go

Too young to fade,

too hurt to hold

Your name still lives in every soul

Beauty Tonia, rest in peace

May your troubled heart find ease Beauty Tonia

We remember you

Beauty Tonia