Write about a trait that is now less prominent in your personality for today’s NaPoWriMo prompt from Terry Griffiths.
My science book is running out of pages —
As lovely as my teacher is,
Needing to put up my twelve-year-old hand
Is spinning around my twelve-year-old head.
Perhaps I shall make my handwriting
Even more shy instead.
Spinning around in my nineteen-year-old head
Is how I just served an American guy at Primark
Who was emphasising his yeehaw accent,
An accent I’m always tryna do at home.
Sadly, I didn’t join in.
The lady he was with said he sounded ridiculous.
Ridiculous it is how in public I have had to psych myself up over the years
And still often plummet
Back down to my Year Seven self,
Yet I want to be famous.
Famous is something I have all my life to become, though,
And being just a tad well-known would be okay, too.
It’s fine that I don’t perform my new-found confidence
In every single thing I do.
Terry Griffiths
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