He checks his email in frustration
A poem from her lies unread
Another silly string of rhymes
He leaves those bitter words unsaid

Her mother reads her latest poem
With a sense of growing dismay
It's just as bad as the rest of them!
She hopes she'll get better someday.

Her father's almost reached his limit
She's getting worse, it seems
He doesn't have to the heart to wake her
From her silly little dreams

Her sister edits her works trying
to salvage her mess of words
She always wants to recite her poems
They think they're better left unheard

She wants to be published someday
Its a silly little dream of hers
She's oblivious to reality
In her poems, she always immersed

Someone really should tell her.
Its not right to let her go
Down this path of no happy end.
She really ought to know!

But no one wants to be the one
To wipe that smile right off her face
To tell her she's not good enough
She doesn't have what it takes

No one seems to want to pop
Her silly little dream bubble
I guess when she crashes and burns
They'll just pull her out of the rubble