Writer's Block

there must be a thousand ways
to break a cloud covering
with as much power to
make me re-think a pen-print

made first on a page
intimidating in it's effortless white
i'm standing cornered in a room i decorated
not with reason but remorse

hushed conservative darkness
spreading through the wavelengths
i never agreed to this!
numbing hesitation meets countless re-dos
i tell you, i never wanted this

it might be another story
if a metaphor was properly used
to express something beyond a simile - but
i'm sorry to say it ended there

...wearily, nonetheless gleeful
to be appreciated at all


-m.r.