Blameless Seal (A Poem About Loneliness and Feeling like You Don't Fit In)
Written in November 2017
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
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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