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I have nothing to write of
in spite of the pen,
my life becomes what then and
if what, when then?

I have nothing to write of
except
sceptical clouds
running their socks off and
moving barefoot in the sky.

I wonder then why do I try to
force the ink from the Hickman line?.
I think it is fate or the time that
propels me into the hallways of hell  and
compels me to question the meanings
of this.

This is the key to it,
write lots and rest a bit
write more and the best of it
features periodically.

In the table of elements where
sentiments mean nothing, there
is something solidified to the
pen upon which fury lies.

I have nothing to write of, but
I write anyway.
Eddie McGrath Feb 2021
A message to my former self,
In all your grief and a-g-o-n-y
That swallows you up,
You absolute stick in the mud.
Remember as time crashes,
no slashes,
no passes
you by
you are growing and shrinking in size -
not in some fluid motion,
but a movement filled with motion sickness.

The room is on fire
and you are in it.
I promise you
the room will not stop being on and
fanning while fannying about
is not helping
in the situation.  

But you can learn to
revel in its burning.
Cauterising your wounds,
so you can finally stop
licking them.

A room is not a home -
remember a room has a door and
you can leave it at will.

No one is holding you hostage.
A poem I wrote a little while ago to go alongside a set of illustrations

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