Writers Block (2014)

June 29, 2014

This was the last one I have in my book of poems from when I was younger. I had graduated college a year earlier and started dating my now husband about six months later.

I want to write

I used to write all the time

I call them poems

To me they are

I wrote down my feelings

No matter what they were

Happy, sad, angry, depressed

Or anywhere in between

It always made me feel better

Knowing that I could express myself

I don’t remember when I stopped

Or even why

But the urge to write

Has never gone away

I’ve sat down many times

With blank paper and a pen

Waiting for the words to come

They never would and

It left me in a worse place

This is the first time I’ve written in years

Though it hasn’t fixed anything

I’m hoping that this will eliminate my

Writer’s Block