A Note to the Lost Boys

Here's to all the Lost Boys who feign felicity

and mouth your hollow words of falsest flattery.

Perhaps you're thinking to appeal to my own vanity?

But I've no illusions upon that text,

nor delusions of my appeal for your sex.

I'm not one to vaunt or fake sincerity,

nor am I guilty, in this case, of false humility.

When from my earliest childhood days, I heard it said of me,

"Pity that a beauty that child will never be,

for really she does have a pleasant personality."

So I have ne'er deceived myself 'bout my physiognomy.

You do yourself no credit, boy, and do me injury

(or, at the very least, insult my mental faculty)

when, in one breath, you whisper sweet nothings to me,

and, in the next, declare undying loyalty

for some other girl whom you wish to marry.

And I am not so silly as I once used to be,

nor desperate for attention despite my malady.

Though unsightly you may think me,

and I don't pretend to be

deserving of the deepest intimacy.

But I can't help but hope for the possibility

of great affection with a man who sees the inner me

and treats me not with vague contempt, but with humanity.

Ah, my lonely Lost Boys, who do as you please,

save your noisy nastiness and vain inanities

for someone other than myself for I am ill-at-ease.

What more is there to say?

Shall we remain friendly?

Will you amend your puerile way?

Till then-

Sincerely,

Wendy

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(I have been accused numerous times that my verses are "not for the common man". But I remain steadfast and stubborn in this....I WILL not dumb down the vocabulary for my reader, not even for young readers. If you do not know the meaning of a word, look it up. You will be richer for it. You will be even richer if you research its etymology. I could go on and on about the 6th grade vocabulary perpetrated upon us by the current news media, but that is a soapbox for yet another day.)