First Day

(Not me, but very like)

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FIRST DAY

 I wore my glasses for the first time,

The day I started school.

(Later, when wearing glasses,

I'd feel like an ugly fool.

I'd be called names such as 'Four-Eyes'

By other kids in the street 

And I'd feel so utterly worthless

That I'd often beat a retreat.)

But those days lay before me,

Days which I would survive,

And I am now returning

To wearing glasses at five.

They were large and rather owl-like

On my very tiny face

But I didn't feel disheartened,

I didn't feel disgrace.

Indeed, I felt important

As I walked holding Daddy's hand;

I felt grown-up wearing glasses,

And really rather grand!

I don't remember the classroom,

Or recall the teacher's name,

But starting school wearing glasses

Brought me a sort of fame!

I didn't know then that the future

Held such humiliation.

That day when I started school

Was like a celebration!

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TEN A PENNY!

If everyone wore diamonds, they'd simply look like glass!

Not signs of wealth and dignity and being upper-class.

The dowagers and duchesses might feel a little bitter

If everyone around them displayed the same old glitter.

To stand-out in the crowd, one would dress 'down', a bit like Ghandi.

Which, in these very worrying times, might come in really handy!

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