Blocked

Where words go to die

Debbie Miller
1 min readAug 14, 2024
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

The blank page taunts me
And my anxiety rises like hurricane Debby

As it threatens to derail me

With reminders of looming deadlines

And it seems like when any words fight through the elements to land on the page

They are silenced as the ink dissolves

under the tears of frustration pouring from my eyes

The words are there in my brain

Swimming in pools of half finished thoughts

But any effort to arrange these words

Into relevant and meaningful patterns

To use my words to relay truth and meaning

Is blocked by my own inner nature

As I watch like a mute mime

Silenced by the morass of my own inadequacies

My crates of words remain shipwrecked

Prevented from entering the port of revelation

and I watch as the rescue ship circles me

but I go unnoticed trapped in the fog where unwritten words go to die

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Debbie Miller

I am a child of the universe, poet, philosopher and idealist and teacher.