Writing in the Shadows

Erie stories with dark endings

Dramatic tales of action pretending

Weary days and sleepless nights

Medication with a cocktail make things right

Lines on the pages begins to fade

Words flow through the ink with no aid

This quiet room is a fortified serenity

Idiomatic expressions complete the insanity

Warm light, wooden desk, window view, writing nest

Then freeze! Runners high endorphins seize

Topic, title, tempo, mood

Distant memories can sometimes soothe

Cliche lines, taboo words, quotation marks if preferred

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions

Current events, headlines, throw in assumptions

Experience, beliefs, bias, judgements

Images, word count, caption, comments

Way too much thinking its time for bed

All this writing hurts my head