Writers block again!

 Writing poetry and prose should be fun.

But sometimes it just makes me want to run.

There never seems enough time 

to sit down and get engulfed in rhyme.

And as for stories, they are a deep dark pit.

They make you fidget and you cannot sit.

I love my characters and my stories I really do.

But just lately, I can not get a breakthrough.

Minutes, hours, days, weeks and months just blend into a blur.

So for now, I'll have to defer.

My characters are stagnating just like me.

I can not give them life; I can not set them free.

My mind won't wonder like it used to.

It's making me irritable and blue.

I have no idea what to do.

I've  tried new characters, but there is no glue.

They have all lost their appeal.

They are just imaginary when they should be real.

They should be resolute, kind and at least have some pep, 

and not act like a travel rep. ( all travel reps excluded.)

.......................

I sometimes leave my stories for a while,  hoping I will be fresh when I return.

I've had them in my life so long now, 

they're starting to give me heartburn.

But it's a fact universally known,

that nothing gets better if you constantly moan.

So it's onward and upward I go.

Even though my writing is oh so slow!