a letter after letter,
adjoined together,
wrapped in a cardboard sheet,
tied with a string-
perfect gift for a writer.
writer
Writer’s Cookie
He was turning out to be the person he wished he would never become. He was terrified of the boredom he was experiencing daily. It was as if he had nothing to do.
“The last book, I wrote, was five years back,” he told his close friend.
It was never published. Truthfully, none of his books were ever published. He had written a few books, some of them he could never convince himself to send to the publishing houses and while the others he had sent were kindly rejected, though he didn’t know because he never got a reply and he forgot it all with time.
“It is alright. You have a few ideas in your mind, right?”
“Yes, I have but they mean nothing till the time I start working on them. They have to come to life to mean something,” he desperately put forward his agony.
“Then work on them.”
“I can’t. Whenever I turn on my laptop and open a word document to type out the words ready to pour out of my soul, I end up typing not even a single word.”
“Why is it so?”
“It is because I feel doubtful either about my ideas or about my capability of working over them.”
He sipped his tea but didn’t pick up the almond cookie, even though he wanted to and rather just looked at it with a morbid sincerity.
“You are no longer enjoying your writing, are you?”
“I haven’t been writing. So, how can I tell?”
“It is okay. Take some time. And may be then you can join a creative writing class.”
“I am old now and there would be kids there.” He finally moved his hand towards the cookie to pick it up; it had lured him into a desire to consume it.
But his young friend’s hand was swifter and she picked it up and gobbled it down and his hands remained in an awkward position. It was the last cookie.
This poem touched me… I Felt It!
I just read this poem and I felt it.. I don’t know how to explain but it seemed as if this poem is written, keeping me in mind. Well that is funny because many people would feel the same… and many wouldn’t. But I know I did. Here it is-
Touch Me
by A Thomas Hawkins
Touch me,
it doesn’t matter where
and it doesnt matter how
I need to know I’m still alive
so someone touch me now
Shake my hand and say hello
or pat me on the back
kiss me on the cheek
that I may feel this sense I lack
slap my face and pull my hair
make me bleed I just don’t care
dig your nails into my skin
so I can feed this need within
I’ve been numb for such a time
that even pain would be sublime
so touch me, touch me now
I don’t care where, I don’t care how.
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