I'm the golden duck I think I'm rare I'm shiny and gorgeous I remind you of the fresh summer air
Yet I'm different so much to compare between
me and my village they laugh and they stare
Even at home you see my family is sliver like as if white was a shiny color, oh how I envy them especially my mother
She's not only beautiful but also graceful she could
walk around and others would stop to stare; her elegance just made my life seem so much more unfair...
I look to the sun "Why am I so different I want
to be just like them perfection and all!" the sun didn't reply just shined brightly in the sky
Day by day I've slowly given up this is hopeless
enough, "you haven't asked me yet" the moon whispers so quietly
Why would I ask her she wouldn't bless someone as I
with such beauty I ask anyways
"Moon, I wish to be like them perfection and all! I want to be what they cannot be what the envy and want to become!"
"why" the moon looks into the stars. I knew it wouldn't work I was a fool to try...
"At the break of dawn go to where the sun rises"
with no other word she turns to her side leaving me wondering
"Is this truly going to happen will I no longer be different?"
Dawn is near but I'm on my way to the lake before the sun is up so very excited to see the new me
Finally, here ready to look in the lake that shimmers "Gold duck is that you?" says a shocked voice, it's the sun
"Yes, it's I" I refuse to make eye contact for the exactment is killing me
"Your very excited today" he says as he slowly starts rising over the hills
"Yes, for the moon has decided to hear my wishes and grant them!"
The sun stops rising and looks at me very concerningly
"Golden duck...for you haven't changed you are the same as you were yesterday"
sadness and anger fill me up inside "This cannot be so! I had made my wish very clear!" I stomp
"If I may ask what the wish was?" he looks focused on me
"Nothing more but simple, I had asked to be like everybody else but more of them I want to become what they envy and want to be!"
The sun raises higher over the hills now just enough to make the water clear and bright
"Look at your refection the moon did not trick you for every duck that you envy they all envy YOU the want to be YOU and they cannot be YOU"
All this time while I want to blend in all of them want to be me...I'm just a golden duck...and they all wish to be me
Apr 20
Apr 20, 2026 at 11:56 PM UTC
I'm the golden duck I think I'm rare I'm shiny and gorgeous I remind you of the fresh summer air
Yet I'm different so much to compare between
me and my village they laugh and they stare
Even at home you see my family is sliver like as if white was a shiny color, oh how I envy them especially my mother
She's not only beautiful but also graceful she could
walk around and others would stop to stare; her elegance just made my life seem so much more unfair...
I look to the sun "Why am I so different I want
to be just like them perfection and all!" the sun didn't reply just shined brightly in the sky
Day by day I've slowly given up this is hopeless
enough, "you haven't asked me yet" the moon whispers so quietly
Why would I ask her she wouldn't bless someone as I
with such beauty I ask anyways
"Moon, I wish to be like them perfection and all! I want to be what they cannot be what the envy and want to become!"
"why" the moon looks into the stars. I knew it wouldn't work I was a fool to try...
"At the break of dawn go to where the sun rises"
with no other word she turns to her side leaving me wondering
"Is this truly going to happen will I no longer be different?"
Dawn is near but I'm on my way to the lake before the sun is up so very excited to see the new me
Finally, here ready to look in the lake that shimmers "Gold duck is that you?" says a shocked voice, it's the sun
"Yes, it's I" I refuse to make eye contact for the exactment is killing me
"Your very excited today" he says as he slowly starts rising over the hills
"Yes, for the moon has decided to hear my wishes and grant them!"
The sun stops rising and looks at me very concerningly
"Golden duck...for you haven't changed you are the same as you were yesterday"
sadness and anger fill me up inside "This cannot be so! I had made my wish very clear!" I stomp
"If I may ask what the wish was?" he looks focused on me
"Nothing more but simple, I had asked to be like everybody else but more of them I want to become what they envy and want to be!"
The sun raises higher over the hills now just enough to make the water clear and bright
"Look at your refection the moon did not trick you for every duck that you envy they all envy YOU the want to be YOU and they cannot be YOU"
All this time while I want to blend in all of them want to be me...I'm just a golden duck...and they all wish to be me
