For a friend

Though you may be the prettiest,

The skinniest of them all,

Your voice might be beautiful

and you are made of pure gold,

Though you can easily fit,

Into the tightest of things,

and everyone around you seems to be by you

You can easily be the one

to hurt those around you

and let the others,

turn their blind ears

and deaf eyes.

But I am here to tell you,

that you - my enemy in so little ways-

that you know the price of being the way you are.

You don't know you will forever be alone,

people will constantly use you,

and never truly care,

You don't know you can never truly love,

for they will leave you,

to find their eternal bliss

You don't know you can never see the world,

Only be trapped by the pettiness and lies,

That you will forever live, and never see

what I will, when the light shines through

Oh Mermaid,

Oh Mermaid,

Tell me now,

Is it really worth it,

To play tall tales on those you know will find their light.

I might be the largest,

not the slightest of being thin,

I may not have that outside beauty

Unlike you and so many others

But I know I won't be lonely

do you see the friends with me?

We travel together,

and are one family,

I will find that love,

And never be alone,

I know I won't be used and played

and I know that someday

someday, out there

that the light will come through

and unlike you,

beautiful mermaid

I will live in my eternal happiness.

Author's Note

wrote this 1 December 2011

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[xansizi]

This poem reasonated with me because, as was the case with so many, I was bullied at school for mot fitting in with the 'popular crowd'. Only now, many yers later, can i see the truth of your words. Outer beauty fades- true beauty doesn't