A Quirky Poem

I was looking through my journal for the year 2005 and I came across this poem, which I wrote for the on-the-spot Versification competition at the Youth Fest last year. The topic was "The Promise", and I was in a quirky mood. So, I wrote this silly poem that, surprisingly, fetched me the first place. So, I thought I'd better immortalise it on this blog.

Confessions of a Born Weightlifter

It started when I was eight,
Yes, that thing which I always hate.
Everyone from my seventh cousin to my cat,
United they agreed I was fat.

I could never eat any ice cream,
"You're too fat", they would scream.
I could never climb that yonder tree,
And take as many fruits as I wanted for free.

I never was able to run a marathon,
Within two feet, my breath was all but gone.
I watched them all eat sweets with delight,
And how they faked tragedy over my plight.

Shopping for clothes was a nightmare,
Horseback riding was a scare for the mare.
Yes, everyone from my great aunt Edna to my doormat,
Together, they agreed I was fat.

When I turned sixteen,
I watched all my peers preen
And when they would compare the sizes of the waist,
I would leave the place with undisguised haste.

But when the time came for my prom night,
I knew I needed to set things right.
It was time to dig my heels in
For my prom I needed to be reed thin.

"Are you fat? Then come to us tonight.
We promise to make you thin within a fortnight!"
These words seemed addressed to me by fate,
To help me procure for my prom, a date.

So, I rushed to the Promised Land,
Trepidation made sweat drip from my hand.
Immediately did they start,
Their work to make me trim and smart.

I ran, I jumped, I bent and worked on the treadmill
Not for a nanosecond did I stand still.
I survived for two weeks on broccoli,
Determined, as I was to remove my only folly.

Yes, to the prom I did go,
Beautiful as I was, with my best friend Joe
But, that was a long while back
Too long ago, before I hit the sack.

I found, being thin was not the easy way,
It involved too much sacrifice anyway
I don't care what everybody has to say
So sue me, but I think being plump is okay!