GloPoWriMo Day Two
Aprosexia
Unable to concentrate
I leave the computer and move the fake
Flower my grandma left here,
On the desk I sit next to
My grandma, the one that remains alive,
Is in no way your classic grandma type
She's different, like any of us --
How are we all different, by the way?
What makes a poem? Can I write one?
Ah, I remember why I grew afraid
And quickly left manuscripts, and things unsaid
Like the fake flower my grandma has
Maybe I'm an impostor and I really can't write.
My teachers could have lied to me,
Or simply hidden the truth.
I don't have dyslexia so I have no problems with words
That could be turned into something beautiful
And I speak more than one language so I don't have
The required vocabulary or the appopiate mindset
I blink twice
I breath in and out
I turn my face from the words on the page,
The words that are too used to have value at all
The words of plastic petals and toxic glitter
The words that don't make me a poet, a real one
Inability to concentrate, I have,
On the words as my work of craft and art
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