(130) No Poems At Knife-Point Poem by Risha Ahmed (12 yrs)

My father forces me to write a poem
My mother threatens me with a knife
My sister says if I don’t write one
She will take my life
Whenever I throw a tantrum
My father says write about that
And whenever I win a prize or something
My mother says write about that
Wherever I look people say,
“Write a poem otherwise
Just know that you are in for an
Unpleasant surprise”.
My friends say write a poem on leaves,
Or my teachers, my pet, my computer
If people didn’t always ask me to write poems
My life would be much better
I just wrote a poem recently
And I think I will just relax and look at the rain
I hear my mother calling me
Uh-oh! She wants me to write a poem again.