Scribbles on Blank Pages

An artist fears a blank canvas

A writer fears a blank paper

Is there a difference if the paper is lined?

Will lines stimulate the doubting mind?

I, for one, am baffled by blank spaces

I might not survive if you forced me to minimalism!

The blank paper is a cage

Trapping my thoughts within its four, white corners

So I scribble and I doodle and I scribble some more

I would have doodled all the way if I knew how to draw

Scribble, scribble, scribble

Scribble, scribble, scribble

I scribble until my blank page is full

Alas! My thoughts are still nowhere

Or everywhere—

Scattering fear and frustration in my messed up

Hole of a room

created: March 8, 2013