Alphabetic Drought

Alphabetic Drought

 

My heart longs to philosophize

Searching for phrases I recognize

Trying to get thoughts to harmonize

But nothing seems to materialize

 

Like your gonna sneeze, psych!

Yet that’s what it feels like

Waiting for inspiration to strike

When animated emotions spike

 

And you feel the pain

like the pouring rain

Driving thoughts like a train

off the track again

Hearing this refrain;

Yeah! That’s gonna leave a stain

 

Feelings run deep and thoughts are tense

Yet can’t get this jumble to make any sense

Old friends try to come to my defense

While I shrug it off and fain indifference

 

Emotion pursues and thoughts insist

The urge to write it down I just can’t resist

Creativity’s longing continues to persist

How long can this feeling continue to exist

 

A silent scream and shout

dying to get out

What’s it all about

thoughts full of doubt

Sentences cannot sprout

in this alphabetic drought