Second Glance (A Poem)

fantasymist · August 20th, 2008, 5:32 am

Second Glance

She wanders aimlessly through the wheat fields.
The sun has traveled across the sky,
it has set and it has risen,
while people far and wide
marvel at its beauty.
Yet no one gave her
a second glance.

Behind her, she hears sounds of merriment,
as happy families greet the day.
Children laughing, mothers scolding,
all of this she leaves behind.
Life goes on without her.
And no one gave her
a second glance.

As the morning sun hides behind a cloud,
she turns around to see what she's lost.
Suddenly the wind begins to moan,
the trees tremble in the gale
and the earth itself crys out,
as she turns to run,
away in anguish.

She runs through the forests to the hill tops,
yet something makes her stop and look back.
Back to her anguished memories,
back through to mists of time, gone.
They never cared for her.
They never saw her.
And no one gave her
a second glance.

Now she's gone, never to be seen again.
Freedom she thinks she has found for once.
Freedom from those who don't belive.
She was never welcome there,
at least, she believed that:
no one would give her
a second glance.

She was wrong, you see, to believe those things.
Wrong to think she was the only one,
the only one who ever felt alone.
Now she's gone. Her mother mourns,
her loved ones left in pain.
everyone gave her
that second glance.

Now isn't it sad that it's far too late?
That she will never know how they care?
How many more are out there too?
Young girls who thought they were wrong?
Do not let them leave too
without giving them
their second glance.

Second Glance (A Poem)

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