SHAKING
Stop shaking,stop shaking.
Wait i'm not shaking, i'm crying
why i am crying , why am i curlde up i a ball crying like a baby
I don't want to make the presentation,
it feels like my heart is going to jump out of chest
I don't wat to take the exam,
my lungs will give up on me
I don't want to meet new people,
everyone's eyes are judging me
They just told me i'm weird
said that i am not a team player
but i thought it was normal to be scared
mama always told me stop being dramatic
i'm weird, i'm wrong , i should stop but
i can't , i just can't stop shaking
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Deeply personal anxiety and self-doubt; autobiographical introspection about speaker's struggles.
Rapid-fire cascading ideas: anxiety, presentation fear, exam dread, social rejection, self-criticism.
Overwhelmingly negative: despair, self-loathing, paralysis, rejection internalized as truth.
Frantic pacing, repetition, fragmented syntax, internal agitation conveyed through form itself.
Approximately 12-13 lines of continuous text; falls in 7-15 range.
Simile present ('crying like a baby'); some metaphor ('heart jump out'); mostly declarative.
Pure lyric internal monologue; direct emotional address without narrative or assumed persona.
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