What leads you to feel unprepared?

Mostly still a child
when I walked
to the bus
to the subway
to walk again
to the auditorium
full of strangers
agreeing that
this was school.

Trying, quite hard,
to not be noticed,
for isn’t that
the greater concern
until you’re ready
to be known.

It came to be
that another
mostly child
decided
I was seen,
and so I was,
ready or not,
prepared.