Wendy Nipas Poet Ballad

Island

Island
If I were an island
Made by nature or by man
I wouldn’t feel alone at all
I would devise a plan
I’d slowly but most definitely
Proof I was smart and wise
For I would turn myself into
A most desirable paradise
Where everything was thriving
Plants and animals, the whole lot
I’d labor steadily and with joy
To make exceptional this here spot
As I would lie there by myself
I would seem isolated
But that would only be assumed
I would be underrated
I would have no appeal or charm
Nobody would come near
Who knows if some would even think
I was a place to fear
But in my isolated state
I’d flourish and I’d bloom
For all the silence and the peace
Would leave me lots of room
And when perhaps by accident
After quite a lot of time
Someone who ventured over here
Would see that I’m sublime
And off he’d go to tell the rest
Of the jewel he had found
He’d tell of all that he had seen
This would for sure astound
What they had seen as overgrown
Uninhabitable and scary
Now caught the interest of them all
They were no longer wary
But by that time I would have been
A natural reserve
All guarded and protected 
From those who would have the nerve.
Wendy Nipas

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