When words don’t come
When the good ole’ brain is blank
As unsullied as fresh snow
As empty as a new, white sheet of paper
The pen may be poised
The computer up and whirring
The fingers curled o’er the keyboard
But there’s no flow, no ideas forming
No signals sent, no nerves jangling
No digits doing their duty
No thoughts to express
Just staring
And stress
And stillness
And shrugging
Ugh
I got nothin’
I got nothin’
I got nothin’
What do we do
When we want to write
And have nothing to say
We try to fix it
To force it
We prod with word prompts
We summon streams of consciousness
We type gibberish hoping
The clacking of keys will release the Kraken
Burst the dam
And flood the world with our untold genius
We fuss, we fume
We ruminate
Why is this happening to me
We cry
We whine
We binge
We may come unhinged
All because
We do not listen
To what our bodies, minds, and souls
Are trying to say
Stop
Rest
Read a book
Take a walk
Go on an adventure
Have a talk with a friend
Recharge
Live
Then
Come back
And write
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