Trying

Another poem written by yours truly. It's pretty self-explanatory. Let me know what you think of it, I love getting criticism!

Trying 

by Patrick Shortall

I just read some poetry

now I want to write some too

but I can't lose the feeling

that it's all in vain.

My hand stretches for the pen

fingers straining to scratch

etching out those little figures

before it falls and slides

like my body

thrown off the merry-go-round of life

I'm lying on my bed

but it won't stop spinning

Trying to figure out

why I should even get up

fail before I start

I can never be the one

That I want to be

Every time I dream

close my eyes and I see

All those visions so sweet

But when I awake

they grow so faint

fading fast with the fog

starts to cloud my thought

Notes and Ideas amount to

Draw a line through

Try not to forget why I need to write

Try not to remember I've got nothing to say