In need of a hound-master

The blank page is scaring me,

it starts staring at me,

begging me for more;

a sexual vixen with an appetite for destruction,

or maybe that was reproduction,

that can't be satisfied with my best efforts.

 

Sometimes art is begging to come out,

but won't throw you a bone for ideas;

such a fickle, untrained mutt,

slobbering and chewing on your intellectual furniture,

leaving holes in your favourite, comfortable, slippers,

and never retrieving your paper in the lawn.

 

The mutt needs training,

where's the hound-master?

disobedient dog, reserved hand

scraped knees from your mouth's actions,

scraped soul from your mental failures,

you're a walking band-aid,

all damaged goods and pain,

no good for anything real,

only as a chew-toy,

for a disobedient dog,

or one whose mess you watch being made,

with a reserved hand.

 

leash your failure,

and hide it away again;

dogs will be dogs,

and bitches will be bitches.