Stop these doubts, mental jail bars, and iron tongues. I was never good at words. I still cannot convey the emotions that I want to come across. But my mouth is all I can use. Gesticulations are not enough. Can I come near to the perfection of which I am pining for? My love for the words, for the phrases that turns into metaphors and the sonnets which Shakespeare wrote and the Roald Dahl books I keep on my shelves are what I have when things get too much. Even with letting go my pain and coming to terms with things... how come I still struggle against myself? Can I even approach the level which all poets must come to so that it is not about the words anymore but about the overall picture these words make? Do I have the strength to ignore grammar and punctuation for even a little while? I am so close and so far away. I want to die as a poet. In a bath tub where the walls are paper and the water is ink and after physically cleansing myself, I can begin to clean my soul too. Am I a flickering flame that refuses to be blown out after a couple puffs of air? Maybe I am, maybe i'm not. But If I were to be this enduring flame of orange, red, and yellow, I hope that one day I can understand myself when I write these words so that I can truly achieve what I am looking for. I want to spit fire. But right now, all I can do is blow steam.