Poetry From The Heart
Confidence A Challenge
Naïveté and purity grumbles:
maturity and know-how begin to explode,
transformations nudge my flesh,
shyness and dislikes start to expose,
a red speckled face expresses a frown,
slouching shoulders hide bulbous breasts,
overcome the obtrude with drawn up knees
head’s exhausted carrying this gloomy load,
cheerless eyes are tired of stiff sockets,
fearful of moving about and revealing expressions.
Confidence is a challenger:
urging me to surrender to these changes,
to sit back, relax and enjoy my pubescent years,
thumb my nose at this temporary situation,
stomp the heck out of these rampant perplexities,
go and play a game of ping-pong with my emotions,
come back as a winner accepting the inevitable.
Barbara Kasey Smith is the writer of this poem – Copyright 2011 – Use by Permission Only.