Bully Boy
Bully and Obese Boy
Obese Boy takes his roundness from the Earth
Becomes his own world in and out
In silent pain in orbit around himself
He cannot hide like other thin ones among us do
Animals gnaw away at his flesh bit by bit
Still he holds his form
Not like a jolly old man or Santa
This boyish oddity of nature scared and carnival like
Abandoned, ridiculed, scorned by all
Rolls on down the road of life
Bully and his kind
Take Obese Boy from the shadows
Under the nose of teachers and friends
Who know but look the other way
Indifference is the height of inhumanity
He’s beaten body, mind and soul
Discarded in a trench
There he rises
Bullies diminish themselves as human
Become the savage wild and weak
In these endeavors and attacks
Obese Boy rolls on down the road
Shedding memories of bullies as he goes
Perhaps he’ll grow a little larger
But so will his human heart
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