Tom Dylan

Making My Debut

I was making my debut

last time I was here.

My brave resolution

the first week of the year.

 

Like that sixteen year old lad

who was smashing the darts,

could I stand on that stage,

and speak from the heart?

 

Clutching my poems so tight

in these trembling hands,

really wanting to be the poet,

and live up to my plans.

 

My eyes fixed on the paper,

I couldn\'t look out at the faces,

but I think it went well,

they laughed in all the right places.

 

Now I\'ve read out my poems, 

does that make me a Bard?

They call it Speak Easy, 

but, man, that sh*t is hard.