Thoughts on expressing thoughts
One of the things I’ve always worked towards is expressing my thoughts in the clearest way possible. I feel like I’m decent at it in text form, because text doesn’t happen in real time. But verbal communication is a whole other story. Trying to explain an abstract thought during a conversation is like looking at some delicate cobweb you can barely see and trying to lift up the edges, only for them to disintegrate under your fingers.
On that note one thing I do feel like I’ve gotten oddly good at is coming up with these bizarre metaphors to explain things. I could not tell you where they come from. For some reason my subconscious is just able to pull them out of nowhere.
If only that skill transferred to poetry…