Gilly Flower Writings

Lifeblood

By Kathryn Evans

Creativity flows like lifeblood

Like water pounding against the floodgate

Words pour into the spiral-bound notebook

Filling the pages with tight, jagged script

It builds and builds, pounding, pounding at the gate

Itching, clawing for release

My pencil moves across the paper

Thoughts coming faster than my hand can move

A hundred thoughts, a thousand

All crying to be heard, all itching for their own voice

Like water rushing through the floodgate

Creativity eventually subsides, a trickle compared to the flood

Calm comes with serenity

With pages filled and pencil dulled

Pounding calms to a gentle throb

The pulse of lifeblood throbbing in my veins