# The Girl Who Could Be Me

Language: en  
Author: \~L\.H\.  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2013, Number 1  
Source pages: 27  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/the-girl-who-could-be-me/>
Original PDF: 2013\-01\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2013](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2013-01/>)

![Illustration of a barefoot woman in a worn coat and hat](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/dfc80edf-efff-4f43-a0b6-f0328948b30b-1.png>)

Sometimes I’ve seen her …  
 Maybe at the mall  
 Pushing one of those carts  
 That always slants the wrong way,  
 Going crookedly,  
 Bent —  
 Like her own life\.  
 Her face washed out,  
 Pale and pinched,  
 Hungry, but not for food,  
 Bearing a load too large to handle\.  
 Then I look at her  
 And wonder why that isn’t me\.

I’ve seen her on the street, too,  
 In lots of different ways —  
 She’s not always the same  
 But she’s always,  
 Always lost\.  
 Like some little child in a crowd  
 Of thousands of people  
 Equally lost,  
 Or just too busy to point the way  
 To become  
 Unlost\.  
 I know her because I always watch for her\.  
 But who is she?  
 She is the girl  
 Who could be me\.

Sometimes it seems wherever I look  
 I see her,  
 Troubled and bruised; in sinful misery,  
 Wretchedly poor in heart,  
 Drowning in sorrow of mind —  
 Perhaps from what she’s done  
 Or perhaps  
 What others have done to her\.

Sometimes …  
 When I watch her  
 I avert my eyes in pride  
 So I don’t have to see  
 Her pain  
 And filthiness;

Until God  
 With His two\-edged sword  
 Cuts open my heart  
 And naked I stand,  
 Trembling\.  
 Remembering that  
 There but for the grace of God  
 Am I\.

*\~L\.H\.*