Writing Practice

My eyelids droop, I stifle another yawn as I try to fight

Both sleep and writer’s block- I’ve been trying to write

Something, really anything so that I do not fall behind

In my commitment to writing- in my mind

Is a deep-seated fear that if I stop trying to write every day

The writing center in my brain would atrophy in some way..

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As an aspiring writer, daily practice I need

But there is not enough time to both write and read

The latter is passive, so I read at the expense

Of writing, that is my innate preference

Sometimes reading gets my creative juices flowing

But whether a book would inspire me to write or not, there is no way of knowing

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So here I am, uninspired in every way

Trying to write at the end of the day

Hoping my writer’s block would magically end

And I would write exactly in the manner I intend