My Crushed Motivation

• Ashton Mousafiridis, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2023

My artistic flair has been crushed.
I feel like an unknow artist.
Waiting to be recognized.
Like a chick who can’t emerge from its egg.
It hurts to think.

My artistic flair has been crushed.
It’s impossible to pick up a pencil.
It feels like a thousand bricks.
Or a whole car on my hand.
Oh, I want to be free.

My artistic flair has been crushed.
It feels like someone has knocked me with a brick.
And although people tell me I can do it.
It feels that they are condescending.
At least they are sweet.

I will be famous one day.