xLx's blog: "Words Tangled"

The keyboard will not move

Without my will

Beating down on it

The words will not

Write themselves

And they're trapped

Inside my brain

I can hear them clicking around

Like three lone rice grains

In a box too big to contain them

So I write the words "happy", "content",

Dare I say, "Love"?

I stare at them incredulously

Hear my own repeated whisper

"Show, don't tell"

But how do I paint happiness

With unfamiliar ink?

My muses don't recognize this

I learned to write

in angst-filled teenage years

When muses only responded

to "pain", "anger",

Dare I say, "helplessness"?

I am inspired and driven

by "fury", "righteousness",

Dare I say, "vengeance"?

Therefore, this new mindset

This white clouds on a cerulean

Blue sky, this bright copper kettle,

Warm apple strudel disposition

Tangles my fingers and tongue

But I beat on the keys, anyhow

Hoping my monkeys can find

Not Shakespearean text, but

words of my own