Words I write

Don’t fall in love

With the words I write

I erase them

Restructure

And edit

Before I tell you

How I feel

They don’t show

The struggle,

The fear of rejection

And the jumbled nerves

They don’t show the stutter

Or the tremble in the voice

They come across confident

Poetic even

Throwing a veil on

Everything I wish to be

But could stop short from being