Writer’s block, what a concept!

Stuck mid-sentence

Trying to make the next line rhyme

What rhymes with orange?

Deranged

Is what I'll be if I dont figure this out soon

Why is it so hard

To write soul-wrecking poetry

Like Mahmoud Darwish

The man made loss sound like love

Made exile sound like home

Why can't I write

Intentional poems like Rudy Francisco

The kind that makes strangers say

How did you know?

But I keep getting stuck mid-sentence

Trying to figure out

What the first line should be

As if the first line is everything

As if the poem won't start until it's perfect

Meanwhile

Darwish probably woke up and wrote rivers

And Francisco probably whispered

And the page whispered back

And me?

I'm stuck on orange