Monday, August 13, 2012

Why I Write, Part x+127: Either a Gift or a Social Disease

Poems fall on my head like apples from trees.
It's either a gift or a social disease.
We share our whole world with ideas unrequited,
Waiting for someone to come by and write it,
Be it something in life that is not what it seems,
Or the longstanding union 'tween science and dreams,
Or my twenty-year love affair with alternative music.
It was just laying there. I decided to use it.
I won't always be right, but not 'cause I'm lying.
I might not be great, but it's not for lack of trying.
Ideas are crippled shut-ins. To give them words will give them flight.
It might not be for everyone. To me, it feels just write.

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