Christopher Goss Poet Free verse

Losing the Spark

Words paved the pathway I've walked
And such a very long journey it has been
For eighteen years I amused my muse
And what started as a spark
Erupted into a lovely bonfire

Sometimes the words were hard to find
Or they didn't really make sense
And I have a catalogue full of weird musings
Some of it may be good
But some of it is definitely bad

I was never afraid to put my words out there
Sometimes there was dead silence
And other times surprising raucous approval
But I did it to show the world who I was
When speaking is such a struggle
I was a kitten but the written word made me roar

But more often than not I suddenly struggle
The words are harder to find
When work saps whatever is in my mind
Each effort ends in disappointment
So it's like I no longer have a voice

This isn't just a simple case of writer's block
It feels like the passion is dying
The bonfire is back to being a spark
And the harder I try the harder it seems to get
And losing the spark terrifies me

So if this is to be the final rodeo
I hope that when one looks at my catalogue
My poems forge the tapestry of who I was and became
From every triumph to every loss
Words paved the pathway I walked

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