outstaring a blank wall | Write Out Loud

outstaring a blank wall | Write Out Loud


outstaring a blank wall 

You stand before a wall.

It waits, blank as withheld breath.

What hovers over you?

Drafts unpinned,

stories unspoken,

videos sealed,

pages chasing horizons

that never arrive.

Perfection dithers—

a mask for delay.

What if you placed

one imperfect mark?

What if you let motion

carve its shape?

The wall gathers:

crooked sketches,

half-born concepts,

awkward stretches,

jokes collapsing mid-laugh.

Chaotic. Messy.

Unfit for display.

Yet weeks later—

fragments draw together,

a shape begins to inhale.

Not triumph,

but a quiet forming,

a world exhaling

what ‘til now was withheld.

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