POEM STARTER

Compose a poem that reads like a monologue.

A monologue is a speech given by one character only, usually to express their thoughts out loud.

Mirror

"Why are you afraid, what do you fear?"

"I'm not"

"You are, you just don't want to admit it, that a danger is near"

"I'm not afraid, I don't have things to fear. I don't have things to panic for, but my heart plays it's own game"

"So why are you so content on burying things, you'll go insane"

"So what, so what, do I look like I care?"

"Do you? Maybe you do and you don't know how to share"

"There isn't a right person, a right time nor a right place"

"But maybe there is, you're just afraid of hate"

"But maybe I'm not, maybe that's not a bad thing to deal with. I'm good alone , I'm good in the silence"

"That may be true or maybe it is not, but in that it seems you have no confidence"

"Because maybe I don't, as much as I want to be alone they don't deserve abandonment"

"So you think to escape, and to disappear-- leaving messages unsent? "

"Not yet at least, I still have time to prepare"

"And to run off into the world, not a drop left, everyone could be scared"

"why would they, and why would they look? I'm not some perfect novel, I'm not some perfect book"

"And you don't have to be, but you've got to be here. Someone will notice, and someone will look"

"They shouldn't, they can't, they won't know how"

"But you can't just decide so quickly even if it's here or now"

"Why should you decide my future, you're just my mirror. I don't want to go but I don't want to stay"

"So you lock it deep down? I'm you, and even I don't understand. Why push them away?"

"Because I cannot remember, and I cannot speak. My words don't come, and I can't reach my arms out"

"But it has to be okay, there has to be a way. You have to have someone who'll hear you whisper before you shout"

"I don't, I don't, because then I'll stay away. I know that you're me so you have to remember"

"There is nothing to remember, you've been like this since December"

"Maybe, but if that is so you forgot like I try to make myself but only one part of us will remember while the other forgets."

"But what does that have to do with the people you wish you never met?"

"Everything, and nothing. Perhaps it's just something."

"Maybe so, or maybe not but you've got to get up. You've got to wake up"

"But when I do. I know I will run out of luck."

"You'll spend your life dreaming"

" I know. That's what saves me"

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