NOT HURTFUL AND MEAN.A Poem by Terry CollettA SCHOOL GIRL AND HER UNHAPPY SCHOOL DAYS BUT THE ONE BOY WHO MAKE SHER FEEL GOOD.
And that was it
not a thing to be done or said Ingrid thought walking home from school her satchel over her shoulder the battered satchel her father picked up from some shop but if that wasn’t bad enough the pink wire framed spectacles which made her eyes large as saucers were a target for the boys at school who called her four eyes but it wasn’t her fault she needed glasses and her parents couldn’t afford others then there was the dresses she wore and the holey socks and jumpers and her hair was lank and kept in place with metal slides even the other girls in class avoided sitting next to her she crossed over the road looking both ways as her mother told her she hated school disliked the lessons she didn’t understand and only the boy Benedict was friendly to her only he talked in the playground and didn’t call her four eyes and that time he walked home with her and said she was pretty no one had ever called her pretty before but he seemed to mean it and he showed her his favourite bombsite and shared his bag of toffees and bought her a penny drink from the shop in Harper Road and it was such a hot day and she was so thirsty and she said I haven’t any money not even a penny and he said it’s on me and that other time they sat on the grass by Banks House and he told her about Ivanhoe and the metal sword his father made him and the cloak he wore like Ivanhoe which was really one of his mother’s scarves she wished he was there beside her now but he was away in some convalescent home by the seaside after an operation she stood on the kerb waiting for the lights to change from red to green if only other boys were like him kind and friendly not hurtful and mean. © 2013 Terry Collett |
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Added on July 18, 2013 Last Updated on July 18, 2013 Tags: SCHOOL GIRL, LIFE, 1950S, BULLYING AuthorTerry CollettUnited KingdomAboutTerry Collett has been writing since 1971 and published on and off since 1972. He has written poems, plays, and short stories. He is married with eight children and eight grandchildren. on January 27t.. more..Writing
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