I Can Accept Now

Weekly Diary Entry

My elusive nature follows;

Once shy,

Another time strange,

Then serious

A bit nervous,

Once youthful

After detached,

And talkative.

Yet I no longer feel the crushing shame,

Only that these faces which grace me

Are all true, are all me—to be embraced.

This story is part of a collection of poems, short stories and introspective diary entries, called “Grimoire of a Weird Person II”.