If only she was a failure of a firebender,
Her mother would have loved her.
She wouldn't have called her a monster
Or abandoned her daughter to the lion's den.
(Something she will never get).
She was born lucky.
Oh, how she wished to have just been born.
The pressure her father dumped on her,
The expectations to be perfect,
Made her a monster.
It made her the kind of monster that was in cautionary tales.
The monster that killed children and ate their hearts.
(maybe the monster only wanted a heart to replace the hole).
The ones her mother warned zuko about.
(never her. always zuko).
The ones Iroh taught zuko to fight.
(never her. always zuko).
The ones Mai had protected zuko from
(never her. always zuko).
The ones Ty Lee's sisters whispered about.
(did ty lee want to join zuko to)
(azula couldn't but wonder why everyone had loved zuko. why did they always pick zuko? Why never her? was she so unloveable? she only had her father and she would serve the only thing she had left with everything she had. she had no one else. no mother. no brother. no uncle. no friend. no girlfriend).
Notes: throughout the poem, azula struggles to accept the fact that she will never be like zuko and never earn her mother's love. Unlike zuko, she cannot accept it and condemns herself as a monster because her mother used to. She sees herself as unworthy of love and abandoned by the people she cares about. She can't help being jealous of Zuko who was a failure in her father's eyes but had people who protected him and cared for him. The names at the end hammer in the fact she is all alone and only has her father.