Finished in August 2018

Words are Sometimes Restrictive

By Zac Langridge

Ideas swirl about in my head

Thoughts and emotions

Stories and themes

Situations and actions

And yet 

Sometimes

They’re so hard to convey

So hard to make people understand

So hard to put on paper

To reach into the deepest depths of my mind

And make those ideas reality

As if I can reach out

And grasp those ideas in an iron fist

Seize those thoughts

Turn those indescribable emotions

Into something tangible for others

For how can an emotion be described?

In any other way other than its definition?

Even the brightest and broadest ideas

So hard to grasp

So easy to keep them swirling about in my head

Until the obsession becomes normal

Fades

And the passion and spark of genius dies

As either, I lose the lightbulb of seeming brilliance

And procrastination takes over

Or it slips from my mind entirely

Forever lost

If only my brain could translate my thoughts

My emotions

Ideas and passions

Into something that others can comprehend

Without the restrictions of words

Without the restrictions of myself