Write to Breathe

i feel like a part of my life has been taken away from me the moment i stopped writing
i got blocked. i've ran out of words but there's a lot in my mind
i miss the times when writing was as easy as breathing,
and all the air-like metaphors which i think i might have left behind

i cannot really recall the exact reason for the absence
but i can say that these days, even breathing becomes unexpectedly hard
sometimes i feel like my words were at the tip of my tongue waiting to be spilled with sense
the same feeling i perceive whenever i'm bloated because of gases i failed to discard

i tried escaping a polluted city i'm in. but the world is full of that.
it has come to my realization that the ability to write should be like breathing. it should be wherever you are
there's a pressure within my chest filled with letters of reproach i begat
and it needs to be out; it's quite bizarre

when you take in ideas and do not make an output
you inhale but not exhale
it's unhealthy, and deadly, unfavorably astute
though there's a lot you know you like to entail

if ever the time comes i could finally be in a well-ventilated location
with fresh air, healthy lungs, and good respiratory activity
wherein writing overcomes any suffocation,
i'll definitely savor every opportunity!

writing was as easy as breathing
then became as hard as it is
if you're a writer like me, you are also valuing:
writing is as important like breathing as you please

we write to divulge the things we have kept
we write till' our hearts' content even the underneath
in this world where our right for air seems like threat,
WE WRITE TO BREATHE.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

'.. we write to divulge the things we have kept - we write till' our hearts' content even the underneath - in this world where our right for air seems like threat, - WE WRITE TO BREATHE. '

How true that is and how many feelings you've superbly laid before reaching those phrases, Aerielle. Seems your surroundings and frequent feelings literally stifle you; how sad is that. And yet, what great words you've offered, how explicit you've dared be to explain what seems to be your poetic silence. But many writers feel unable to 'speak' during this or that episode in life. Guess one has to keep trying to free the mind and heart and put down even a few occasional words. Perhaps?

[Onlyme]

Nicely expressed Aerielle, about writer's block and how it affects you. As it does actually become part of living and breathing as you said.