Pony Verse: A Collaborative Collection of Pony Poetry

by darf

Sisters Never Listen!

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!

Author's Note:

Poem by The Illusive Badgerpony

Comments

[punzil504]

I can hear Sweetie Belle's voice cracking on half of those lines.

[Alesiopdv]

I can picture them both wearing berets and reciting this for the beatniks of Canterlot

[hornwire]

reading this one made me think of my own annoying sister

[YoshiFawful64]

Someone needs to actually recite this on YouTube or something.