Emotion rising Drafts Revising Words rearranging Underlying emotion unchanging I'm a tangles mess Under stress Pulse quickening It's sickening The words won't form This can't be the norm It looks so easy But all I feel is queasy In my mind it seems so clear But in my mouth it is only fear You stare at me with your big brown eyes You're munching on french fries I feel the words weight on my tongue A love song that refuses to be sung I shall wait until tomorrow Till I find some words to borrow