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I need to write a poem in Spanish for my project. I need inspiration, but i can't find any. Urg. Maybe I'll just use Where I'm From and change it up a little. It'd be good last minute practice for Friday anyway.

But i feel uncomfortable sharing one of my pieces to my class. I'm not that confident. Especially sharing with a group of judgmental strangers. I don't share my poems and songs to even the closest people to me. They're too personal. They reveal too much. But i have to do what i have to do, i suppose.

This is my first product:

What do you see when you look at me?
What is your first thought- first judgment?
They tell me I'm living life too fast.
That I'm growing up too fast.
Or that I'm too immature.
And i have no idea what I'm doing.
You don't know me.
And I'm not who you think i am.

I was fine with it and everything. Then i read it over later and hate it. I decide to start over.. Sigh, back to square one. Bare with me. I'll write all my stupid drafts up here. It beats having balls of crumpled paper all over my room, lol. .__.
So i think about it. "Write about what you know. Write about what you feel." And i come up with this.

Center stage.
My moment's finally here.
All eyes on me.
Waiting for me to mess up.
I hear him yell out "Action"
But I'm still in a daze.

How many people are there in the audience?
And how many of them do i know?
I hear my name being called.
And i come back to reality.
I smile.
Time to put on a show.

Since basically, my performance is all that's on my mind lately. I guess this one is a winner. Kind of brief, but it's fine. Let's see how it sounds when i translate it to Spanish.

Centro de la escena.
Mi momento es finalmente aquí.'
Todos los ojos en mí.
Esperando a que me lío.
Lo oigo gritar "Acción"
Pero todavía estoy en un sueño.

¿Cuántas personas hay en el público?
¿Y cuántos de ellos puedo saber?
He oído que mi nombre sea llamado.
Y vuelvo a la realidad.
Sonrío.
Es hora de montar un espectáculo.

I like the way it turned out, even though some of these words are hard to say. Let's hope google translator did it justice.(: