I Can't Stop

A starving artist driving herself mad

Trying to salvage writing that is bad

Crying over fanfiction that is really sad

Pajamas are plaid

It’s all she had

Writing the next great bestseller

Burning through poetry helter-skelter

Too much time inside, giving her pallor

A storyteller

A blog-dweller

Blunt pens and crumpled pages everywhere

Trying not to rip out my hair

Because the words aren't cooperating

So I'm crying and perspirating

The characters are so bland

Got writer's cramp in my hand

Better plan on no sleep tonight

Gotta work until I get this right

Gotta write something

My mind is exploding

My fingers are itching

But somehow the words won't come

Got writer's block

Keyboard is locked

But I can't stop,

And I won't stop

Because sleep is not for me

Not until I fix this analogy

And I can't stop

No I won't stop

Got punctuation to double-check

Gotta research how to varnish a deck

Yeah, yeah

She’s going crazy from a lack of sleep

Crying over posts that aren’t actually so deep

Breaking her keyboard from an abuse of ‘delete’

Rinse and repeat

Admit defeat

My phone rang and broke my train of thought

Low on sleep and overwrought

But this rhyme scheme’s bugging me

Why did I ever start writing poetry?

The publisher sent back my book

Said that it needs lots of work

I’m so disgusted

Pencil lead’s busted, oh no!

And nothing is working

My stomach is churning

My tired eyes burning

Because this is the millionth time

That I’ve re-written

This manuscript

But I can’t stop

And I won’t stop

Until the dialogue is smooth and nice

Even if I have to rework it thrice

So I can’t stop

And I won’t stop

Living off bread and water

Sneezed and dripped coffee all over

Oh fudge!

Lack of sleep and too much caffeine

Wastes time reading old magazines

Procrastinating writing that scene

Stuck in-between

Criticism’s extreme

This is the life story of all

Writers whether they’re big or small

Too many ideas, cannot use them all

Head against wall

Need an overhaul

But we can’t stop

And we won’t stop

Because there’s so many tales to tell

Another re-imagining of how Rome fell

So we can’t stop

And we won’t stop

There’s scripts and fanfiction

Writing is our addiction

We’re doomed.