Writer’s Block

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Would you call it a disease? Diseases are anomalies or carelessness regarding health.

Would you call it an imperfection? Perfections conjured by the mind’s expectations are merely imperfections.

Would you call it an insecurity? Doubts seemingly existent or non-existent tend to become insecurities, laden with the weight of what to do and what not to.

Would you call it a misconception? The mind justifiably paints its reality to free itself from the cage of illusions and sometimes, ends up forming misconceptions.

Would you call it a stranger? Strangers can sometimes become the color in the gray of this world.

Would you call it a thief? Hearts and souls are returned in an altered form by the hands of a thief.

Would you call it a killer? Killers are saviors disguised as murderers.

Would you call it an illusion? The light of the moon cuts through the illusions roaming on about.

‘What do you call it then?’ he asked me.

‘It’s a leaving mark. When you sit at a place, your skin leaves a mark on that place – from the tip of your head to your feet. That mark comprises of words you should have written. It’s like the skin shedding its dead cells. But in a writer’s block, in place of dead cells, your skin sheds off words. So it goes; you walk around and there are marks being left behind you, tendrils of words left hanging in the air. You lie down and there is a mark left there too. You smile or cry and a sheet of words drips down from your facial lines. You run and an invisible whirlwind of words is leaving a trail behind you as you move forward.’

‘When you die, the marks of words left behind you hang in the turbid air of the world. People pick out their favorite words from these marks, leaving the simple ones in the marks. After a while, they start remembering you by those simple, monotonous words left behind in the marks.

‘It’s like having scars; the healed skin is picked off by these wild beavers called humans while you have to sleep in your grave with the insidious looking part of the scar present below the healed skin.’