Bruise

I start out each semester
just as ambitious as the next.

I sign up for a Fiction Writing course.
I think, "I'm gonna read some Steinbeck
I didn't know was there
or perhaps write
in the style of McCarthy
on accident."
But I become lazy too early on
and my emotions always deteriorate my energy.

Then again,
none of my art would have its direction
without a bruised mind.
God is watching over me.