//------------------------------// // Sisters Never Listen! // Story: Pony Verse: A Collaborative Collection of Pony Poetry // by darf //------------------------------// Sisters Never Listen! Reading Notes: Bolded lines are recited by Sweetie Belle. Italicized lines are recited by Rarity. Bolded and italicized are said together. (Lines in parentheses) are said simultaneously with the line above them. Sisters never listen! Eldest always works and never sets Aside her time Aside her obligations Aside herself Nothing for me All for her Younger never stops bothering me Always jabbering, never quiet At least not when I need the quiet At least not when I’m Working Sisters never listen! Eldest always has a dress A row of sequins, bright like spotlights (Please be quiet, please be quiet, please be quiet) Fabrics like my nightmares Darkness drawn amongst them (Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet) Blotting out the ears of Elder, Never listening when I tell her (Please shut up, please shut up, please shut up) How my nights are haunted Please, shut up and listen to me! Younger claims No liability (No, please, no, please, no, please) She doesn’t know the burdens That weigh on heart, mind and back (Stop it, stop it, stop it) Pulling down your features, every day a new wrinkle Every wrinkle a reminder that years wear on (Please shut up, please shut up, please shut up) And soon, you’re out of style Please, shut up and listen to me! Elder says she hates me Elder calls me another Burden Elder only wants to work Never wants me, Never wanted me But me is who she got and will get Younger says she hates me Younger calls me prissypants (Prissy, prissy, prissy) Well, if these are prissy pants (I hate you, I hate you, I hate you) This aging trim Is simply garish Hate. You always hear her Never feel her Hate! Oh how I hate how she never listens If only she knew how much it hurt No mark, no talent, only two To keep me on this hated earth Hate! Oh how I hate how she never listens She is too young to understand How much I do and so much for free I do not wish to burden those close Only burden myself with Her Sisters never listen! If she does, why doesn’t she know me? If she does, why doesn’t she see? I sometimes don’t think she’d care if I died Sometimes, I wonder if she’d listened (Alalalalalalalalalalalalala) Just how much she would learn (Just how little I would learn) Sometimes I wonder if (How nice.) She’s really my sister (That’s wonderful, darling.) Or just the world’s most boring robot (How droll.) Sent back in time to kill me (Perfection.) Stop the resistance and (Mm-hmm.) Keep ponykind from being bored to- Well, now! Me, a robot?! (Uh-huh.) All that chrome, Ugh Disgusting! (Sure.) Perhaps it’s you who’s like a drone (Whatever.) Get yourself knee-deep into trouble When I so much as turn around! Goddess above! Sisters Never Listen Ever! Except Except Except when she needs to listen Even when I don’t want to hear her whine Even when she’s going on and on Sometimes you just have to listen Listen for dangers to Younger (Listen for dangers to Eldest) Listen in case she’s actually Looking out for me Listen in case she just might Have something resembling a point Listen in case she really needs Somepony who will listen to them For once She’ll hear me out For once I’ll take her word for it For sisters Never listen Except when one’s needed most When I need comfort When I need confidence When I need a helping hoof When Elder needs a spool of thread When Younger needs a bandage When a sister is needed She’ll always come around When Elder’s love life, Stagnant as always (Well!) When Younger’s flank, Blank as ever (Hey!) When I need comfort When I need assurance When a sister is needed She’ll start to come around And when she says “I hate you,” There is no power in those words They are lost to the winds For hate between sisters is merely a word And true hate between sisters An awful nightmare But love is a force that very few know And fewer understand As sisters do For as long as you love one another As long as hate is said but never felt As long as begrudging need remains Sisters never Listen!