The Girl and Her Corner

She looked on from her corner at the popular, gossiping girls,

“Why don’t they include me?” She asks,

“Why not ask me to join?

I sing well,

& dance with grand form;

I get A’s,

& am interesting to talk to;

I am fit,

& am on the winning teams;

I have style,

& wear adorable clothes.

“Do they find me a bore?

Stuck-up & mean?

I wish I knew why they don’t join me.”

Now I’ll ask, silly girl:

Have they ever heard you sing?

Have they ever seen you dance?

Have you shown them your As?

Have they ever talked to you?

Do they know you?

& I bet if they did,

They wouldn’t need to know all that, too.

Then the girl walked from her corner,

Shiny anew,

with a glad & sparkling attitude.