Act (an acrostic poem)

Adopting a new persona

Capturing the audience in an alternate reality

That made them forget the usual one

Post (an acrostic poem)

Image: blog.hubspot.com/hubfs/post-instagram-1.jpg

Putting a piece of yourself out into the digital world

Organizing a public persona that the private one hides behind

Still, some of the private part leaks through the online words and pictures

That’s the good/bad of social media.

Actor (an acrostic poem)

 

All she ever let them see was her screen face

Cold, aloof, mysteriously beautiful

The fact is she was scared, scarred, and so plain was something to hide

Oh there were times she thought about letting go of the persona and just be

Reality was she was too committed to her craft to let her audience down

 

Image: warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/brokenmirror.jpg

Catching Up (an acrostic poem)

Cat and mouse described Nat’s relationship with her peers

At least that’s how Nat saw it

To be the mouse was tiring, but Nat put up with it

Coming to grips with being a target was built into her persona

Having success from an early age was a mixed blessing

Inspiration to some, a threat to most in this male dominated world

Never really at easy in the power dynamic

Given that women were still looked at as either being subservient or a bitch

 

Until men would stop pawing her figuratively or physically

Perhaps she would need to become the cat in this relationship

 

image:

res.freestockphotos.biz/pictures/17/17073-an-african-american-woman-looking-out-a-window-pv.jpg