I want to write today ...a poem by Asif Sultan Matta

I want to write today...

Asif Sultan

28-08-2017

I want to write today...

Let my Muses be sullen, thus away

The ink arid and my pen sterile

And heart devoid of feelings

But I want to write today...

How long shall I keep apraising

The ink-flow of my comrades

And teach pupils 'how to write'?

To get a spur to write?

And drain impeded streams?

No, let me hold a dagger

And slit all my veins

And let clogged blood drip

To paint a crimson castle 

Out of it, to give home to my pain

I want to write today...

I can't afford not to write

Can't be now imprisoned within 

this writer's block

Is it or it isn't? 

Can't let myself be dazed in this crock

Let me fill my fountain pen

With wine of coal black ink

and let it stumble on dull paper, 

I've been afraid to fill

For I want to write today...

Witty or silly be my poem

Let ye not call it even a poem

Rhyme and rhythm be absent in it

And its syntax fallacious

I have to write, I want to write

So, I'm writing today...