Finding A Voice

Performing

The word I write
becomes the word I speak:
the spoken word.


There was a time
when I
(so shy)

chose not to be
seen
or heard.

I loved to write
but didn't seek
the spotlight.

But, to cut
a long poem
short

now what I write
becomes the word I speak/perform:
the written spoken sung word.

(Although,
I have to say,
my 'act'

would not impress
Ms Jessie J.
She wouldn't turn

her chair around
to look at me.
But, occasionally,

when I charge a fee,
and get paid it,
I feel as though,

in my own
small way,
I've made it).

Explode