Ragged Paper Fish

 

Little ragged paper fish

I know what you’ve been through

I put you through it

I’ve traced around you

Many times over

I’ve used you

Abused you

And you don’t complain

You just do your job

You remind me

Of someone I know

Who works hard

Does her best

Someone abused by life

Someone aged before her time

You are not alone

Little ragged paper fish

She, too, is falling apart

Bursitis set in at too young an age

More wrinkles than her mother

Who is twice her age

And works

And she follows your example

It is all that you

And she can do