i am most certainly not hiding.... an #OctPoWriMo poem

A brief preface: The "You" mentioned by the speaker in this poem is not YOU the reader, it is "You" the community at large, as she sees it. Many times when I write in first person it is not necessarily my voice you are hearing, it is some fictitious poetry character I create in the moment. Because confessional poetry is so much more common than fictional poetry, I wanted to declare that before people started either apologizing to me or getting angry at me. Phew! Glad to make that straight!

 

blue word cocoon

wraps me in a net of

productivity:

idol, deity, pin-up girl

I worship

will not

can not

shall not

abandon

without

just

cause

 

some might call this

Hiding.

i call it time stewardship.

wise

wonderful

satisfying

committed

sanity

saver

no matter what

you busybodies

say

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This poem reflects the theme of hiding, as offered by the OctPoWriMo prompt on October 2, 2013. If you have yet to hear of OctPoWriMo, it is a month long poetry challenge: 31 Poems in 31 Days. As you can see, it is flexable to a degree - I am not posting this until the morning of October 3, simply because my mind was crafting it throughout the day yesterday AND I didn't have adequate keyboard time to get it out to the world and YOU! Join us and enjoy!!

Comments

[Steph]

While it's not my deity or my idol, you make some great points...and you make me smile, WB.

[Amy McGrath]

Sanity saver, indeed! You must have visited in my head for this one!

[Anna Stewart]

I really like the tone in this, the almost angry edge to the ending, defiant!