Walking Forward to the Beginning (Book 5)

Block Breakthrough

*Dedicated to Annette Streich for telling me about the ME Book Club on FB. Talking about books and reading, broke the dam. Thank you so much, my new awesome friend.*

I have had readers block
For at least 9 months
The books I had preordered
Coming in and sitting on shelves
Gathering dust

The brain fog
Was not letting me read
School has been tough
But oh how I wished I could read
Even for a little bit

Then a new, funny friend
Started taking about books
A club on FB
For us ME folks
It was a group

I loathed to join new groups
Gets complicated
Did not have great experiences
I was in 3 for a long time
And was just fine
1 of which I own

But here
This was different
Something that has been held from me
Maybe just maybe
The passion would return

As I joined
I felt the reawakening
Block breakthrough
As I picked up the hardest one

700 pages worth
300 of which I read in 3 days
The rest would wait until it was
Dissertation time

As I saw people talking about books
Sharing pictures
Quotes
Silly memes
My hunger grew

I gathered the books yet to read
Stacked them up
And after putting down the brick
Started in with a vengeance

Out of the 7 pictured,
2 are done and
I am on to the third
And no I haven't forgotten
I have a 15 page paper to write

But it looks like my readers block
Has been removed
I hope it's forever

The peaceful feeling
Cannot be described
Another missing piece
Has been added back

Break the dam
Release the river
Flood the brain
With stories from beloved authors
As I await with open arms