POEM STARTER
Confession.
Write a poem, with a set structure, which centres around the theme of confession.
My Homework
I want to die.
No, really I do.
No, not the “man I’m gonna kill myself” type of thinking
but the type where I’m thinking of killing myself
like homework I’ll do later.
Not the type where I say it and never do it
but The type where I’m really close to finding some way to end my life.
To finish it up and put an end to it
instead of procrastinating it.
It’s at a point where no matter
how much my friends try to tell me not too
to put down the pen and do something useful
I can’t stop thinking of doing it
like it needs to be done.
No more pushing it back
no more denying.
To put the pen down
would be to ball it all up
and I cannot do that anymore.
It’s like I can never escape from it
never get away
until I go through with it
until I stop procrastinating
until I do my homework
…
I should do my homework.