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If I… Would you laugh at me?
If I Sat Down,
Tears Streaming Down My Half Dominican Half Puterican Face,
Droplets Of Water Coming From My Brown Eyes
Would You Laugh At Me?
If I shaped the stars and the sun,
With a #2 pencil full of led,
Would you laugh at me?
If I looked through a lens Of hope,
To see the bright, ripe moon
Glowing from a distance
Would you laugh at me?
If I try to mimic characters
From an amine,
With a smile of warm joy,
Would you laugh at me?
If I act like myself,
To be your fragile friend
You hold close.
Would you laugh at me?
If I work hard to
Complete Projects
Or videos to make you smile
Would you laugh at me?
If I had bruised myself
Without knowing
Would you laugh at me?
If I embraced
my half Dominican- half Puterican side of my life
Would you laugh at me?
If I fall...
Through the swollen pit of life vs death
Would you laugh at me?
If I Replay my favorite songs,
Humming the lyrics
Would you laugh at me?
If I stay...
Or If I go...
Would you laugh at me?
Or have the courage to say… Hello.

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I wrote this because this is a question that I do ask myself sometimes. I sometimes wonder about the things that I do that are being laughed at. I think this poem made me more aware of my choice of friends because what if my friends laugh at me for the things I do. I don't want that happening. Coming up with this poem wasn't hard because I thought about things I do in my daily life. From drawing to listening to music, I wonder if people would laugh at me. As a writer, I think this was one of the most open poems I´ve ever written. I normally don’t write about my life and if I do, it usually isn’t so open. My writing has become more meaningful because it’s helping me become more open in sharing certain things. This poem matters a lot to me because I learned more about myself than I ever knew.
I wrote this poem because it shows how teens and preteens wonder if they are laughed at for doing normal things. I decided to not make the font Times New Roman because I wanted the poem to be in the style of handwriting. Handwriting better shows how the person feels about themself. In my 1st stanza, I decided to capitalize all letters because that line was the most open for me and I think it should be all caps because of its importance. I tried to use words that helped create Imagery. I used words like ¨Streaming¨ and ¨swollen¨ to help create a mental image in the reader's head.