The Empty Page
An empty page
White
Blank
Barren
Nothingness
O the possibilities
All of them
Vast
Infinite
Fresh idioms
Sentences never strung together before
Like
“The obstinate pig leaped into the flames and saved the drowning kittens.”
Never written before
’til now
An empty page
Infinite worlds at your fingertips
The ability to create
The ability to destroy
You are the deity
Then you write
One word
Two words
Three words
And so on
Now the page isn’t empty
Now the possibilities are fewer.
The more you write
The narrower it gets
The longer it goes
The higher the risk of
Screwing up
Holes in your plot
Uneven syntax
No longer perfect
The empty page now soiled
Now the page is crumbled
It wasn’t as good as you thought
Tossed in the wastebasket
Underneath that page is
Another
Empty Page
White
Blank
Barren
Nothingness
O the possibilities
