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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