Title: On the outside
Fandom: Original
Length: 30 words
Content notes: no warnings apply; contains angst
Summary: too short to need one



as a child, I learned
my emotions were too much
or too little, always wrong

now when I'm tongue-tied
choked with what I can't express
you assume I feel nothing


Technical note: The website Shadow Poetry defines sedoka as "an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7."