It’s time to try this again.
Hello chapter 1.
I’m ready this time.
I have a story to share.
Words start to flow,
Scenes begin to form,
Already at the end
Of famous chapter 1.
Hello chapter 2,
Will you continue my tale?
I promise I won’t leave
Until we reach the end.
More words, more scenes,
A character or three.
So thus the climb begins,
And so ends chapter 2.
Greetings chapter 3,
It’s been a while I know,
The stakes have raised
Tensions are high,
Conflict slowly brews
And characters take up arms.
Here the journey finally starts,
Goodbye chapter 3.
Dearest chapter 4,
You’ve always been my enemy.
How do you convince
The momentum to keep going?
The words are slow,
Clunkier than most,
Final thud a sound I know,
I found the wall again.
I know I have to push through.
I know it needs to happen.
I write the scenes
That linger in my mind,
For chapters 7, 8, 9
And others that I need.
I look again at chapter 4
And sadly close the program.
Days to weeks,
Weeks to months,
And now it’s been a year.
I open up to do some work
And find chapter 4 again.
I skim the words I knew.
I skim the bits and pieces
Wrote to keep me writing.
I read it through
From start to end
But nothing I do,
Nothing I say,
Nothing I write,
Can finish chapter 4.
In the trash it goes,
Or a folder I’ll never see,
I spend my time
In sorrow and dreams,
The stories burst
Imagination runs
And I hate how much
I long to share
My mind, my thoughts,
My broken heart,
But nothing comes,
And soon it’s been years.
Time to try this again,
Hello chapter 1,
I’m ready this time…