There is something here that I can't
quite taste, something trying to get out of my brain, some obscure,
and relevant, and original words that can't quite worm their way into
my consciousness. This is my curse, to be blessed with a talent but
be unable to access it. I have a power, but no knowledge of the
mechanics of using it. I have things running through my brain and
streams of knowledge that I can't drink from. What is clawing at the
inside of my skull just trying to be heard over the screaming details
of everyday life? Many things are fortunate but this is not one of
them. I have an eloquence but nothing to use it on. My creativity
is stifled only by the limits of my own imagination. I think of
things, but they are only things that I have seen already in some
shape or another from the minds of those smarter and better than me.
flashes of Tolkien, and Twain and Poe, and Homer. All of these
things I first think of and am deceived that they might be mine, but
when the surface is scratched it is simply another copy of the great
people that came before. Is there anything original left in my head?