WRITING OBSTACLE
Change
Fire
Grief
Using these three words, explain in first person why your character had to run away from their hometown.
Change
I don’t like **change**
I never have.
And I don’t think I ever will.
Though people find it hard to understand
What is hard to understand
About the fact it has to be the same
Food the same way
Clothes the same way
Routine the same way
I don’t like change
Is that such a pain?
Yet you light the **fire**
You pour different fuel around me
You change the recipe
Or the detergent
Or light a different candle
Or take a different route
But yoh just didn’t tell me.
You don’t even apologize
Just roll your eyes
And assume i am fine.
But I am far from fine
I am breaking inside
Trying to decide
What I did wrong
For you to change something
To make it different
I know its irrational
But then I miss the old
I **grieve** the old food
The old packaging
The old car
The old everything
I greive the things that change
Not because i miss them
But because i wasn’t prepared
I don’t like change
I never have
And I don’t think I ever will