Writing Prompt

The expectations weighing me down make me feel as if I'll crumble.

The studying and homework begin to pile up.

I wake in the morning worrying about tomorrow.

I sit in the dark of the basement because I like the way it hides me.

I crawl under my desk and cry.

I have no energy to do anything.

After a long day, there’s just more expecting.

“I'm always energetic,” they say.

“Come on, you'll be fine.” ...

Unlucky first to be the last

Completely unaware of the fact

Time would move this fast

Smothered with no contact

Avoiding the conversations

Well-meaning as they are

Felt more like accusations

Why I only made it this far

Where was my secret sauce

Supposed guardian angels

Lost in drowning applause

My dreams all now fables

A sense of self perverted

Because I was left for dead

With abject failure ...

Moving slowly up,

Growing

Footsteps, blooming of

Sounds of chiming birds,

Ready themselves.

feet wandering

Deeply beyond forests and streams.

Trickling, glittering,

Flowing like honey.

Sweet serenades

Hum softly.

That pitter-patter,

small feet,

Dancing for foliage

Colored autumn red.

Red autumn colored

Foliage for dancing

Feet, small,

Pitter-patter that

Softly hum

Serenades. Sweet

Honey like. ...

I wait for my name to be called

I wait for a finger to point at me

I watched other people walk towards their teams

I just wonder when mines going to be

I watched as people high-fived their team captain or friends

I watched as some teams were as perfect as crackers and tea

The bleachers became emptier and emptied

Until Im the second to last one sitting, see

I saw the other team captain th...

Authors note: Usually I am chosen last for P.E. Teams because I hang out with the most unathletic people in my grade and I'm small. Also being a big sister usually I have to go first on the scary things and last on the safe stuff. I know a lot of people in this world are also chosen last just like me and I hope that gets better for them ♡

Name after name called

Watching as the boys brawled

You...

I know how it feels,

When people give sunshine,

But rain on your parade,

When there’s other worlds to brighten.

I know what it’s like,

When you’re placed on a pedestal,

A ledge of affection from eyes,

That’s forgotten about.

There’s always someone else,

That veils me from their spotlight;

I guess there’s better options around.

It sucks when you trip,

From supporting character,

To lowly backgrou...

I don’t know whether I’m ecstatic or devastated. The boy I love with all my heart seems to love me too. But he came to me with all his pretty words only after he had poured his heart out to every other girl he knew. On the one hand, he loves me. But on the other, is it real if he had to be rejected by anyone with eyes to see me? I sighed and flopped on the floor of my bedroom. Staring at the ceili...

Why am I always the one less desired?

The bile in my throat tastes of shame and I wonder why I’ve never been enough.

If I were enough for someone, surely I wouldn’t have been chosen last.

I’m lacking.

My missing pieces leave gaping jagged holes whose endless darkness swallows anything that comes near.

An unknowing passerby stumbles by and I think to myself, “maybe, just maybe, I’ve found...

I know I’m not the first choice,

I’m no one’s first choice,

I always hoped I would be,

But it never happened.

Never the favorite,

Never the first call,

Never the first invited,

Never the first thought.

Last can be good,

The last thought before bed,

The last person you want to loose,

But I don’t fit into that category either.

It’s always maybe,

Never a yes,

It’s always fine,

Never any ex...

When I was a youngin’, I always was picked last,

An extra or set design for the ensemble cast.

My physical prowess was sadly nearly nought,

That is why at picking time my name was rarely caught.

After school I watched my friends all partner up with wives,

The third or fifth or seventh wheel, an add on to their lives.

I found love late and had my kids a couple years behind.

As they all dealt with ...