Staying Comfy
Created: 02/16/2005
Weekends are for pj's and bunny slippers,
or shorts and a tank top for the beach.
I walk down the halls of school,
comfortable in jeans and a sweater,
my backpack thumping softly against my back.
Girls in my classes - clad in Roxy and Abercrombie,
with Chanel bags slung over their shoulders.
Suddenly my sweater is too baggy,
my blue Jansport bag too big.
In my mind I see their eyes staring as I walk past -
burning a hole through my sweater,
creating a gap between us.
That gap is more like a gorge of a canyon,
It's mouth yawning wide, ready to eat me
should I give in.
But a smile from another pair of jeans and a sweater
bars the mouth with a bridge.
I cross over to the other side where
pj's and bunny slippers await.
This was for an English challenge of "Time Now," or writing about times passed. I think it was trying to capture your present physical image along with a present fear. This one was edited several times.
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