Friday, December 23, 2022

Where do I start? A poem about writer's block

Where do I start?

Thousands of thoughts are running through my mind,
While I'm working on this art,
It feels like options make me more confined,
Where do I start?

Do I write about the luminous night,
Where there's a tale therein
Or about a bird that's just taken flight,
How, oh, how do I begin?

I play it off as good ole' writer's block,
But I've had it for a long time
There's a story inside which I have unlock,
Wen can I begin my climb

How, where, and when do I begin,
I'm back to where I started 
In an incomprehensible labyrinth,
That I still haven't out-smarted.

I'm at the dead end of a maze,
Oh the places I've been,
But something has changed in these many days,
And now, finally, I know where to begin

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