Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Young Homely Me

I was homely when I was young.

It didn't bother me until

High school when I'd hear whispered tongue.

I couldn't help it, shame would fill

Me with a sadness and despair.

So I would isolate and think

Nobody really seemed to care.

Alone, I'd often drug and drink.

But in college, body and mind

Did blossom in me, I did aim

To help those like me in ways kind.

A high school teacher I became.

When sad, homely girls seem to be,

I show them pictures of young me.