Flashing Failure

Blinking, urging, impatience,

it mocks while it insists.

I stare trying to find

the words to satisfy

its annoying persistence,

but thoughts grow silent.

The page becomes a neon sign

flashing my failure to create.

With grumbled swearing

I slam the lid on the cursor’s contempt

and walk away from its assiduous demands.

©Susie Clevenger 2011
http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/