A Letter to a Blank Page
To the page unwritten,
How you taunt and tease me
Like a bully by the swing set,
The color of the heavens above,
But a reminder of the hell below.
When I gaze into you,
Inspiration evades me
And I see nothing but ghosts
Of words I’ve written before
On sheets filled with ink and ideas.
The pen trembles in my hand,
As it traces words that I think and reject
One by one
As the shuttle bounces off a skilled racquet
Missing the net of composition,
Flying into the court of another.
Though I may try,
Nothing comes to mind,
And already I know that this endeavor
Is a case lost to the depths of overthinking
And the chasm of the mundane.
Stars fill the night above,
But just a few minutes ago
The sun rose and splashed my face
With its colors.
And so I have spent the day
With you again, my dear,
Staring into the face
Of a poem I’ll never write.
Love, and hate, and all in between,
Nikki