Stare

Nothing comes out 

Staring at this blank screen 

Stopping me in my tracks from doubt

Feelings urging to pour out

Like a crack in a dam

Turbulence ready to pounce 

Strike down the cement in my judging contemplations 

Flood the rivers

Overflow the banks

Let it explode outward like a nebula at its end

Flush out the poison stuck inside,

It feels like hot tar on a summers’ night

To drown the mundane 

Bury it deep in a spectacular wave 


Nothing escapes 

All locked up tight like the vacuum of space

Dammit, it’s all just a drag 

Losing my silly mind 

Longing to spit it all out 

I can’t agree with myself 

So I knock the brain around

Going on without any bounds 

Handcuffs placed on every murmuration,

It’s hard to escape from those gentle palpitations

If only one chance, to lose the hinges

Soften the blows 

Scream into the air 

And just let it all go 


Nothing at all 

A dark empty screen

Staring back at me 

If I could, with a gasp I’d be good 

Haunting perceptions 

All coming back out of the blue 

I hear them calling 

Spooky memories 

Flooding all back 

Like a thousand raging tsunamis

Soon the dam might burst open

A majestic explosion 

Flying concrete and debris

Knocking it all down like a tower of ice in the middle of hell

I agree, its all self destruction 

The urge to burn it all down  

Start anew, 

Rebel in the dystopian 

And speak it all out, 

No more going around


Nothing has ended 

Staring at a full screen

Something happened when the stars aligned 

One day it takes for life to change 

The ultimate force of nature 

Driving me forward with spectacular agitation

What is it they say? Objects in motion tend to stay in motion

So push me forward until I tilt over 

These words insisting to come out

A lifetime of things left on the back burner

So different choices made 

Soaking in a sweet rain

And even with so much

I try and I try, 

And Nothing comes out.