Release

Blank.

White page.

Empty lines.

Staring

Mocking

Three a.m.

Four

Sleep eludes me

Want

Need

Must

Write

No rest for the weary

Thoughts build

Pressing dam

Unwielding

Want

Need

Must

Make silence

Make stillness in my head

Pencil to paper

open the dam

relieve the

mounting cracks

gaping wider

and longer

and wider

threat growing

for my thoughts

to implode

no explosion

just erosion

a slow

subtle

wearing

of my sanity

slipping further

Pencil to paper

Release.