Now Mary was a clever girl

Top class grades at school

She never crossed the teacher

Obeyed each and every rule

 

She was very good at English

At Maths she did excel

Tops at French and History

Geography as well

 

She was indeed the teachers pet

Disliked by all around

She told on everyone

Any discrepancies that she found

 

Soon she was left all alone

No friends to chatter to

No secrets shared with Mary

They knew what she would do

 

Now many years have passed since school

Mary’s changed her life

Five children and a husband

She makes a docile wife

 

Mary doesn’t go out much

Her husband tells her “N0”

He’s afraid of what would happen

If her cuts and bruises show

 

Mary yearns for a friend now

Regrets her time at school

She wishes that she’d helped to break

One academic rule

 

She needs someone to talk to

To share her secret fears

But there’s no one to see her

Shed her silent tears

 

The morale of this story is

Don’t turn your friends away

Don’t make them fear and hate you

You’ll need their help some day.