Layla Grace

This was written in March 2010 about a little girl's plight against Cancer that was followed by thousands on Twitter, sadly Layla Grace lost her battle and I hope she has the eternal peace she so deserves, I hope the family don't mind me placing this poem on here to remember her by as she touched the hearts of thousands of people in her short life including my own. RIP sweetheart gone but never ever forgotten.

A loving heart a pretty face
The beauty that is Layla Grace

Sent from heaven there's no doubt
To teach what love should be about

No selfish thoughts no heartless whine
Just hugs and smiles in truth divine

In illness as in any task,
No more could any person ask

Of such a young endearing child
So warm, so pure, so meek and mild

How can we understand a God
That rules with such an iron rod?

Why take such beauty earthly bound
When so much ugliness is found?

In corners of this very world
So much hate has been unfurled.

But walk with me and talk awhile
I know that I can make you smile

By telling of a little mite
That gave the most tremendous fight

Against disease that dwarfed her so
But yet she coped as we all know

Layla Grace your life's cut short
but let me tell you so,

I've learned so much from one so young,
there's something you must know

If I should live my 3 score years
and ten as it is told

My memories of one so brave
forever I will hold

So smile a smile and think a thought
of Little Layla Grace

And very soon that warmest smile
.. will light the darkest place.