(063) The Not-So-Cool Glasses Poem by Risha Ahmed (12 yrs)

When I once went out shopping
I bought a pair of glasses
But pity I couldn’t wear them
In between all my classes.
I still loved wearing those glasses
Even though I could see well
We never were separated
For more time than the tinkle of a bell
But there was something odd about those glasses
When I wore them things seemed to shrink
And things began to disappear
Like things that I eat or drink
Even people didn’t accept me
Like all my friends at school
I guess they don’t think I am smart,
Dashing, rocking or cool
So one day I took off my glasses
In the crowded school hallway
When everybody began saying compliments like, “You’re cool”
This wonderful dream can’t be true, no way.
Now I have all my friends back
But I have given up one thing
“I’ve got rid of my glasses”
Is the song which I now always sing.