DEAR CREATOR
Mercedes Shafer
I do not know myself.
I do not know my worth.
I do not know why I am here.
But it must be for your paycheck.
I do not know why you need me.
I do not know why it is a must.
I do not know your point of reasoning.
But it is simple, I am just not enough.
I do not know what I am meant to do.
I do not know why you use me.
I do not know if I am of any help.
But it’s is easy to see, I am nothing much.
I do not know my identity.
I do not know your tests.
I do not know where I belong.
But what I do know,
Is that I do not know you.
Mercedes Shafer
Mercedes Shafer: I am 18 years old and have always used poetry as a way to express how I feel. I took the Writing 242 poetry workshop at PCC and found that poetry helped me with my feelings a lot more than I thought. When creating “Dear Creator” I did not originally have a specific person that I was thinking about, but after some fixing up, I began to have a person in mind. I left it as “Dear Creator” to give the readers some room on how they want to interpret it.