Comfortably introvert

Feel free to write your troubles on

napkins, to spill tea from your 

trembling hands, to close your eyes

until you're used to the darkness and

play around with the cornea constellations

as if they are your only friends. Be clumsy

and awkward and embarrassingly quiet

and avoid every stare that seeks for eye-

contact, desperately trying to figure

you out. Be alone in a crowded place

and let no one disturb your inner peace,

even when you're nervous and you

accidentally drop your cigarette from 

between your sweaty fingers. Breath

softly, slowly, in control. Blink twice

and wet your lips because they got dry

from not talking. Be as much of you as

you can, even if that means flushed 

cheeks, inaudible stutter and uneasy smiles.

Be that unique person only you expect

yourself to be. Don't give in to standards

and don't break your head over who you

are supposed to be. Be yourself, that is

more than enough.

Reviews

[KTizzle]

I love this. I was looking around for poems about being introverted because I was feeling bad about being one and this really cheered me up. It had great description, not too blunt, not too vague.

Thanks for posting for real!

-Jazz