This piece is one of the first poems I wrote after my writer’s burnout. It is poem about breaking through the cracks a bit and starting to journal through the numbness I had towards writing.

Process

This poem was simply written with a push to create new writings in order to submit to a magazine. Through the poem I talk about “trying to let go” of the stress from school and life’s recent months and the sadness that I’ve felt that seems to be permeating “everywhere, everything.” Through metaphors, I write to burnt out and how the words used to come easily, but now it’s a trudge to get out.

Although writing is my lifeline, sometimes I get drained from it or I’m left with no energy to express my thoughts. But I know that through everything, writing will always come back to me like a “line of light.”