Lovely Penguin

This is a poem that I derived the idea for a long time ago. Really, it’s still in the works. Let me know what you think.

by marie gordon
Ringing
Knocking
Footsteps
Coming

I’m not here
Go away
At my door
Cruel prowlers

Wrong girl, wrong time
I’m not ready
You’re mistaken
Come back later

Rope around my neck
I’m not a woman
I am just a child
You think that I’ve ‘grown’

You think I’m a woman
There must be some mistake
I’m just a baby
Still, please unhook this leash

Drag me away to the world
Push me to domestic love
I’ll still be in Neverland
You’ll scold me because I failed

Of course
I won’t say
I told you so
I’m just a baby
You’ll be back, I say,
There must be some mistake

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