My Greatest Fear

My Greatest Fear

A Poem by Shelby Baker
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My Greatest Fear

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My Greatest Fear

 

 

 

 

My fear  isnt about


 Being a lonely old hag nobody wants to be around

 Getting into a crash and not being able to walk

 Dying and being the devils little torture doll

Spiders crawling all over my body

Tight dark spaces that will crush me

 

Oh no

 

My fear is greater than that

It’s the fear of having my family judge my writing

Just think of what would be going through their minds

 

       That goes through her head?

        Is she really thinking about doing that?

              She really needs to see a therapist!

 

I don’t mind having the whole world

judge my writing

But when my family is reviewing it

I get tight knots in my stomach 

My Greatest Fear is..

If they think I’m going crazy..


© 2010 Shelby Baker


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The good and the bad.... I'm not very good at sugar-coating and I don't believe it helps.... I'll start with the bad.... Grammar is important, as is spelling. 'Toture', 'then' should be than and 'hole' should be 'whole' to name a couple. Little things really, but if you aspire to be published, those things could make the difference.

Okay, now the good, and there is good in it!! =) I think you give great insight into your inner thoughts and feelings. I really like the first paragraph. You portray yourself as being afraid, without being fearful.

Keep writing.... you've got something going on here =)

Posted 14 Years Ago


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Haaaaa. My thoughts entirely. Funny isn't it....allowing and enjoying total strangers to read our stuff ? Guess we are kinda normal then. Loved this.
Thanks
Babs xx

Posted 14 Years Ago


I am laughing out loud on this one..witty but possibly true..Our families all seem to have some opinion on our writing..I alswo paint and they have comments on those also yet..they buy them..funny huh..lol.Valentine

Posted 14 Years Ago


SAME HERE! Although, the spiders all over me would literally kill me.

Posted 14 Years Ago


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very truthful! just put plain and simple!

Posted 14 Years Ago


yeah i do that too. but they don;t know how to use the comp so i don't really worry about it that much. they don't even know that i write poems. they don't know that i write things at all

Posted 14 Years Ago


So true! I have to delete my writer's cafe history each time I post, even if I'm on my own computer! At the fear that they'd read my work and think I've gone mad

Posted 14 Years Ago


Holy crow! Wtf! Mine too! Every single line of ur poem! I'd go beserk if they find out about my writing skills! =O

Posted 14 Years Ago


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It is a huge fear indeed. I love it when people read and review my work, but when it's someone close... Different story all-together.

Great piece, nice use of HTML.

Posted 14 Years Ago


i'm going through this with the novel i'm working on. i'm a really sociable, outgoing person on the outside but there's so much more to me that no one ever gets to see. the story is fiction and noir and stylized but so heavily based on my life and time in LA, even narrated in my own voice. can't tell you how many people have read excerpts and told me some variation of what you wrote in this piece. nothing negative, really, just that it's crazy to truly get inside someone's head. i think the feelings you touched in this piece are so honest. keep it up.

Posted 14 Years Ago


I liked this one a lot.....i feel similarly...never let my parents see what rubbish i keep scribbling in my tiny secret diary...:)

Posted 14 Years Ago



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Shelby Baker

Ware, MA



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