I have written a lot less
Than I did last year,
And I had often woken up
With a crippling fear
That I no longer had
A single rhyme left in me
In spite of being crushed
Under the weight
Of worries and troubles
That could only lose power
If expressed poetically,
But I had persevered
By letting suffocating silence
Be symbolically lyrical
For a while,
By letting blankness
Of the pages in my diary
Be the voice for everything
That I couldn’t write,
And it had been all right.
I have been all right.
©Aaysid
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
Oprah Winfrey
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