I Doubt You'll Write This Poem for Me

May 3, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A poem from the point of view of someone who lacks self-confidence:

I doubt you'll write this poem for me

Since I so rarely get

The things I set my heart upon,

The things I might regret.

So little do I now expect,

So little hope or fear,

I draw a circle round myself

And find my pleasure there.

I do not like my friends, nor do I

Think that they like me.

Their words are hard, like jagged rocks,

Their treacherous eyes like scree.

Alone I read, I dream, I like

My music loud, I wait

For something that will never come,

I fault my faultless fate.

I throw myself upon your will,

Yet know you will not say

The words that show me to myself

And burn my heart away.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology

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5/2: Forty-Nine3

5/3: I Doubt You’ll Write This Poem for Me