Apr 30
Posted Forever
To all of you poets, writers, and content creators who battle imposter syndrome like I do, this poem is for you.
You’re a stock image people found online
No credit provided, you’re literally exposed
They could reduce you to hundreds of pixels, your
Thoughts grainy, undetectable, yet still exposed?
They could download you only to delete you,
Your file type unsupported by their device, exposing
Your mental search queries rendered unsearchable
According to Google Drive, there’s always more to expose
You’re not of fair use to them; you’re the public domain
Anyone can use your name for their own expose
They treat you like a stock image from Unsplash
No credit provided, you’re literally exposed
Thank you for being you!
Avery Danae
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
This poem is also published on my Instagram page, @avedanaewrites, and was originally written as part of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Adult Poetry Workshop. A ghazal is a poem composed of at least five couplets (but no more than fifteen) that ends with a repeating word or variations of said word. In this case, expose, exposed, and exposing. The last couplet traditionally ends with a proper noun.
If you like reading poems like this, check out my most recent poem. It’s the last installment of my “Senioritis? I Think Not!” miniseries:
