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Blameless Seal (A Poem About Loneliness and Feeling like You Don't Fit In)

Written in November 2017

By Jessica SelbyPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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I don’t think I’m one of you

You think the way that seals do

You’re hard and cruel, even when I try to mend a crack.

There’s never been a shortage of people telling me I can’t see

Guess what, She

Just pulled the sun from my face

And I am angry because she said what way

I make her feel, when I roll her off the rocks

That’s not okay

Cause I’m a blameless seal anyway.

They come closer and pin me in a corner

Their rubber jiggles as their mouths open further

They click their teeth, and rotate their shoulders

Now listen here, penguin

It’s your fault there are sharks out there

And if you step over one more line, I fucking swear

You’ll join them in pieces

nature poetry
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About the Creator

Jessica Selby

I've been writing poems since I was 13 and this is the first place I've published them. I'm a uni student studying English Lit

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