If I Go To Prom

If I go to prom

I will stand

By the wall

Punch in hand

Scanning the crowd

For someone I know

Wondering how

They convinced me to come.

Or maybe I

Will actually dance

Without thinking why

I took the chance

To bother showing

To this pointless

Place, blowing

Off all my previous

Commitments

To sitting in

My bed doing

Nothing.

If I go to prom

I will feel shame

Just like I do

When even thinking

About it.

Or maybe that

Feeling will

Go away

But that’s

What I thought

When she

Brought me those flowers.