Fear of Change

So I wrote this. If I could write music, this was written in song format (Verse Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Interlude Chorus). I know songs rhyme, but I can't rhyme and still say what I want to say. One thing, though, this has a much more rigid structure than pretty much any poem I've written, ignoring silly stuff like haikus and lymericks. It's also notable because I didn't write it in this order, I wrote the first chorus first. Usually poems go exactly or almost the same as when I first put them down. It's also the only one I've done in installments--other poems are just sit-down-and-write-'em things.

I pretty much wrote this about myself. I felt like it. I saw "head in the sand" on a billboard and it brought this to mind. Wrote it in my bedside notebook over the next couple days, whenever something came to mind and I was sure I'd forget it.

Woops, I forgot to put my penname anywhere on this one...

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