The Trouble With Words
A Poem
Despite all my efforts
The fear of rejection
Never fails to confound me
Its arms like tendrils of shadow
Loosely wrapped around my neck
Poised to strike
Waiting
Endlessly waiting
For a moment I forget to be afraid
It never has to wait long
I am no willing victim
Though those shadows ensnare me
As easily as someone blindly ignorant
As easily as someone
Who doesn’t know to be afraid
This is a long way to tell you
That sometimes
I may not have words
That fully express
What I think
What I feel
What I want
But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist
They’re just trapped
In the transition from my mind
To my tongue
Paralyzed in stasis
Waiting for those shadows
To finally dissipate
Though somehow
They always escape
The words flowing endlessly through my hands
My fingers
Slowly piecing themselves together
In their intended order
Never audible, but entirely visible
If you know where to look
