Byline
That moment in the fairytale
you realize
The Story's You
those chapters read
all paths that wound toward here and now
mean more than words observed
or heard
yet emptiness
a vacant page
sets your fictions on a cliff
and you wonder how
and where
or if
your narrative advances here
since rails and signposts
disappeared
until you spot the ink and quill
and pen the endings
as you will.
Byline © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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19 lines. Image brevity challenge (young reader on stairs holding a book pensively) prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2749829-write-what-inspires---8-only
Submitted: May 12, 2020