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Road Closed Ahead

 I have hit the largest block I have ever crossed in my life. 

Nothing will flow from the keys or pen as I stare longingly at them. 

Thoughts that flood the mind while breaking the waves of sleep, suddenly fly with the morning sky. 

The one major project I’m working on, the one pieces of writing that means the most to me right now, seems determined to remain unfinished. I can’t make the stories intersect how I want them, or even how they should. I can’t get the subjects to aline in a way that makes sense. I can’t force the characters to interact or even acknowledge they know one another. 

I’m going to take a breather from that and instead share something else I’ve written in the past. 

Enjoy

Blue Momma

Blue socks. 

Blue balloons.

Blue baby whales on blue lined invitations.


Blue emotions. 

Blue light.


Blue hospital bands. 

Blue blankets. 

Blue onesies. 


Feeling nothing but blue, wishing for pink. 


Three little blue boys, wrapped in blue swaddles, blue ribbons streaming down. 


Blue. Blue. Blue. 


My little boys blue. 


I never loved blue so much. 


Blue momma wishing for pink. 


Blue momma, wrapped in a blue hug. 


Blue Momma, you never needed the pink. 


Blue is all you need, blue changed your life. 


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