My brain says
Start
Write
Go
And yet
My body
Stays still
My mouth
Still shut
My feelings
Shut down
I try to grasp the pencil
To speak
To move
And yet
I stay
With the same
Blank face
Sitting in a chair
In the same dull pose
As if
My mind
Is only
A blank
Slate
.
BLANK SLATE
NOMI LEWKOWICZ