All we want is life! And a little poetry in it...

  This creative writing class has challenged me to write poetry...something that I consider one of my weaknesses. I find it difficult, mostly because I don't feel that I can be that clever in just a few poignant words. I wrote this one, however, just about that feeling.

I Can’t Write Poetry

“Write from your heart!”

Are you kidding?

Writing from within

Is like prying cold, dead fingers

From a last dying wish.

With sickening suspense,

Tongue stuck out

With tense tunnel vision,

I cut the barbed wires

Where I had thought

There had been heart strings.

My soul is more guarded than I thought.

“Try and reach deeeeep down.”

Have you ever tried

To finagle your fingers

Down your throat,

Groping in the dark?

While I snatch at my heart,

That precious thing,

My uvula is tickled instead.

And I vomit.