Shy?

You call it shy

As a joke

In front of everyone at our meeting

And I sit there and don't respond

Confirming your accusation 

I let you

Think

Whatever you want

Because you don't know

How this time last year

I was so overwhelmed

By a life

I no longer had any control over

How every morning

My anxiety was crippling

You couldn't know 

How hard I've worked

To just be

Shy

Reviews

[Ballpark Frank]

Very nice! This is a perceptive and smart write. I understand too since I was very shy growing up. Still am.
.well done!

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Your poem flowing in River of Truth. Like person who is shy by nature .I can relate to this. Everyday it's fight how to still keep myself at this world and how to don't became just shadow. To be just shy it's quite manageable but to have anxiety is another thing. Very well done here.

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I really understand all you speak. My anxiety left with other things but was replaced with being alone and stress of things can't control. Kinda funny the goals I sit to fix the things can control but the things I can't that really gets to me.

[Shoshana]

one word: amazing.
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[emmajoy]

'.. How every morning .. My anxiety was crippling .. You couldn't know .. How hard I've worked .. To just be .. Shy .. '

To admit in such clarity how you've felt, what you've experience shows real inner strength to me. You've turned back the facade and in a way re. constructed your pain into being understandable yet - private. Plus, and amazingly, you've used such fine language to express yourself.

[Kent Rawski]

Its not easy to live through your biggest fears i have both succeeded and failed my takeaway one faced one not

[Levi Levin]

These things are so true in the lives of many. Thanks for spotlighting this in a great poem!

[Chris]

You've come a long way... catch your breath you earned it.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

I can just feel how the pain carved your bones into a hollow ache. For someone to make fun of that in any way is just so hurtful. You showed so much strength in the silence, letting her words roll off her tongue like a stupid stone. I hope it crushed her foot! :-)

[R.E. Ray]

I read here exceptional strength, the narrator showing up when the past might have prevented her from leaving the confines of a bedroom or home. "Shy" is often used by the shallow. It's an easy, often inaccurate label, people try to affix to others. It's says little, other than the person hasn't taken the time to know you or your life. You've captured that brilliantly here. A well-written poem.