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That was my pen, before. Lapped up every last drop of ink hungrily And spewed them all out in just the right Shape, the right amount, for the right meaning, Blowing life into its royal blue color recipe To craft breathing alphabets that animated Into words that I remember Were mischievous, but adorable babies: They used to talk, walk, play, cry and sleep; Oh, they used to live on their vast white landscape, Reviving my memories with their Own connotation- my innovators. But my pen is a teenager: unpredictable and moody, It now creates stubborn, sterile letters that just want to besiege The tip, clog right there and not drop out. Even if I ****** it awake now, my pen would just puke some Little droplets shaped like letters that would Blot the paper ugly, or, the words would exit deformed, like Their genes had gotten affected by a nuclear bomb. Oh, what have I done to enrage you, my love? Did I over-feed you, or under-appreciate you That your self-esteem decided to turn upon me, Or become so dependent on you that my mind has dulled Its imaginations far too dry now, For you to shape them well? My verses now wilt and die, New lands in the paper just get wasted, alarming me For land is a limited resource in my house, the earth. But land is not the ultimate problem, For there are a thousand landscapes I could pull out of my imagination; Only if my pen would love me once more And reproduce my ink faithfully, I could be a writer again.
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Mar 10, 2014
Mar 10, 2014 at 6:11 AM UTC
When a writer's pen stops working
That was my pen, before. Lapped up every last drop of ink hungrily And spewed them all out in just the right Shape, the right amount, for the right meaning, Blowing life into its royal blue color recipe To craft breathing alphabets that animated Into words that I remember Were mischievous, but adorable babies: They used to talk, walk, play, cry and sleep; Oh, they used to live on their vast white landscape, Reviving my memories with their Own connotation- my innovators. But my pen is a teenager: unpredictable and moody, It now creates stubborn, sterile letters that just want to besiege The tip, clog right there and not drop out. Even if I ****** it awake now, my pen would just puke some Little droplets shaped like letters that would Blot the paper ugly, or, the words would exit deformed, like Their genes had gotten affected by a nuclear bomb. Oh, what have I done to enrage you, my love? Did I over-feed you, or under-appreciate you That your self-esteem decided to turn upon me, Or become so dependent on you that my mind has dulled Its imaginations far too dry now, For you to shape them well? My verses now wilt and die, New lands in the paper just get wasted, alarming me For land is a limited resource in my house, the earth. But land is not the ultimate problem, For there are a thousand landscapes I could pull out of my imagination; Only if my pen would love me once more And reproduce my ink faithfully, I could be a writer again.
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Mar 10, 2014
Mar 10, 2014 at 6:11 AM UTC
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