Unstuck

Weekly Challenges

Unstuck

Deadline

In poetry or prose, write about someone who has long been stuck in an endless cycle and has finally managed to break free. Explore the contrasting emotions – first despair, then joy – felt by your character. [Photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash]

Submissions

  • Constant

    Stuck in the constant cycle of being healthy and unhealthy

    Eating nothing at all then eating too much, eating too much then nothing at all. 

    Depressed then happy, happy then depressed. 

  • Voice

    Every time 

    I try to speak

    My voice is trapped

    Stuck between reality

    And imagination

    Between my mind 

    And my throat 

     

    Stuck in a loop

    Unable to reach beyond

  • tied to you

    It's endless,

    The loop of love. 

    I fall into it once,

    And it feels like I'll never escape. 

     

    It's like I'm tied to myself,

    Suffocating in thousands of knots,

    Tied by you. 

  • never-ending

    I have been stuck for so long

    In this never-ending repeating life

    Of school, work, sleep

    Stress eating at midnight 

    And stress crying in the afternoon

    The question is

    Will I be unstuck in time