Lately, I've been afraid to sleep. Every time I start to dream, I'm greeted by a banshee scream. I find myself running but don't seem to go anywhere. It feels like I'm on a set of m.c. escher stairs. Eventually, I end up stumbling and fall. And when I look up, I see the scariest thing of all. She showed me a vision of a wall. Engraved in the stones were all of the words I had been dying to say. I thought I lost them. But there they were just a few feet away. The banshee screamed again and the ground started to shake. The wall started to crumble and I knew I needed to fight. There was too much at stake. I closed my eyes and focused on trying to breathe. Then I started to believe. I believed in myself. That I'd find the words again. And just like that, when I woke up, I found them right where they should have been. Bottom line, don't be afraid to dream. Because eventually, you will realize everything is not what it seems.
This poem was written after I saw a group post about making a poem where writer's block is something chasing you