Projection is a free verse poem I wrote for my Creative Writing class, exploring the connections between acting and social anxiety. I relate to this poem very much, and many have said that this is the best poem they've read from me. I'm pretty proud of it myself.
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Spotlights. It's easy
To get lost in them.
Drawing a blank;
It's impossible to be
Off-book when you don't
Even have a script.
Isn't it?
I don't know when
I lost it... maybe it's at
My house. Maybe I
Never got one.
This dress rehearsal
Is not doing much good.
The makeup is too
thick and these clothes
are not mine.
When am I ever
Myself?
I've heard horror
Stories before. Corpses
Lying downstage, some
Thing funny unspoken.
I don't want to be
Dead.
I wish I didn't have
A mouth, I tell my friends.
I wish I wasn't speaking
In soliloquies.
They don't know what
A soliloquy is.
Of course they
do not know.
They aren't actors.
YOU ARE READING
Little Writings
AléatoirePoems, Short Stories, Flash Fiction. You get it. I thought I would still post all of the things I write for you guys, even though they aren't Hamilton related anymore. I thought you would still enjoy them.
