Misread: An Original Poem

Misread: An Original Poem

Autumn Gibson, Staff Writer

Sometimes I worry about what others think

 

I speak in public and my face turns pink

 

I make a mistake

 

and my hands begin to shake

 

I sit down alone

 

and now I’m in the loser zone

 

and my head fills up with doubts

 

I look around but there’s no way out

 

so I just sit here all quiet instead

 

feeling all misread

 

like a book off the shelf

 

because it didn’t follow the rules supplied

 

but was sad when they wanted happy

 

and funny when they wanted sappy

 

and so

 

book, you lay forgotten

 

just lying there all rotten

 

feeling all out of sync with society

 

because no one seemed to like your variety
and now you have social anxiety.