June 4, 2023

write
write as if your life
depended on it
write
as if you couldn’t start a whole day
without it
write as if you couldn’t find
your true identity
as a human being
unless you were to
write
write
write as if you just can’t do anything
but
write

~~~

am i actually
naturally
good?

or am i fooling myself
over
and over
and over again?

~~~

does it even matter tho?
if i get satisfaction?
if i feel pleased?

should i even care if anyone else deems it ‘good’
?

December 8, 2022

i don’t understand
how to be a person
interacting with other people.

i kind of understand
how to be a person
interacting with one other person,

and i kind of understand
how to be a me
interacting with only myself;

but multiple others???

i either am too loud
or too quiet
or too uncomfortable to do anything else—
so…what does that mean?

does that make me less of a person?
or more?
does it make me an introvert?
does it make me socially anxious?
or simply anxious all the time?
is my perception of myself based on how little others can perceive me?
or is it something else entirely?

or are these all questions
that only i can answer
for myself/
accurately
?