Dear Writer’s Block
BY ALEJANDRA RESENDEZ
Dear Writer's Block,
It's not you, it's me...
Goodbye my faithful companion
Goodbye to your sweet lures
I cannot go on, pretending
Our love hasn't been smudged to blurs
For when I start creating
You want me to suffer in thought
Oh, but the thoughts are blank
Years of battling; I can't say I ever fought
My weapons of choice aren't many
But you sure know how to choose
Filling my head with ruthless doubts
You knew the weakness to ensure I would lose
Envy, jealousy... as if I were never good enough
My words were left to wither, alone
When I inhaled your presence too much
You began to adore my attention
I don't blame you – I gave you a lot
But shouldn't I build myself greater
Instead of pushing myself to not?
I almost gave up on my passion
One thing I may, in myself, possess
Something I delight in doing
To end it, you did quite obsess
People tell me one thing
But, you tell me another
You no longer have words to make weary my new weathered world
You shall never again be my lover
If Only - If Only,
Alejandra
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