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I’m just an ugly duckling

I don’t know how to fly

I’ll never feel the heights of the sky

The heights the sky embraces

Like a blanket

Like someone beautiful

I’m just an onion to the eye

I always seem to make them cry

I’m only an ugly duckling

In a pond of swans

Don’t look at me

I’ll make your eyes cry

In disgrace and disgust

I don’t disserve the love I get

From such a darling swan

So graceful and perfect to my eyes

I’m just an ugly troll

Underneath an ugly bridge

Chewing dirt

Sipping mudmilk

Sometimes I’d rather be stone

To avoid all embarrassments

To avoid all punishments

Of being ugly as I

But you could never love a stone boy

Better a stone than a runt like me

The last little duckling in the group

I don’t know how to swim

I’ll probably never learn

In a pond of swans

In a pond of all these beautiful people