You Can't Get There from Here!

by Cheryl Merrick

I sit there staring 
at the blank screen--
mind empty.
Why is nothing coming?

I have waited all day 
for this moment. 
I did all my household tasks;
I answered all my emails;
and now when the time
has arrived--nothing!

For a while,
I sit there quietly, 
then looking up 
I finally know that
You can't get there from here.