It's not my fault (they say) by lovelyday15, literature
Literature
It's not my fault (they say)
What do you call writer’s block that has been self-imposed?
It has been one week and I have written nothing –
I can’t force any words past my fingertips
because I can think of nothing but
that and if I write about it then it was real,
if I write it, then it happened.
It happened.
This past week has been spent and wasted trying to forget,
futile though that may be,
and there have been nightmares and guilt and silence,
though I only cried once.
People look at me and if they
can see it in my face, they never say a word.
It is a kind of anger,
this emptiness that has manifested itself in my fingers
The sadness and guilt has
It's not my fault (they say) by lovelyday15, literature
Literature
It's not my fault (they say)
What do you call writer’s block that has been self-imposed?
It has been one week and I have written nothing –
I can’t force any words past my fingertips
because I can think of nothing but
that and if I write about it then it was real,
if I write it, then it happened.
It happened.
This past week has been spent and wasted trying to forget,
futile though that may be,
and there have been nightmares and guilt and silence,
though I only cried once.
People look at me and if they
can see it in my face, they never say a word.
It is a kind of anger,
this emptiness that has manifested itself in my fingers
The sadness and guilt has