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