This is About Being a Writer - a poem

To write:

yes, what to write, as debatable a topic as there can be
because one can write for any number of reasons:

for pleasure
for pain
for deception
for persuasion
for fun
for benefit
for destruction

To write:

a task taken on by fools who think they know how to handle
language, but their language or one they've cultivated
only to find that they don't quite comprehend it all as planned
and that plan being:

to feed the drive
to satisfy the urge
to cultivate the craft
to debate the cause
to plant the feet
to plant the seed

To write:

is a garden of possibility using the nearest most handy
alphabet and watering it till it sprouts sentences
and weeding out splices and run-ons unless they are aesthetically
pleasing, and debating on whether that beauty in that eye
is worth more than the beauty in your eye:

spacing out the argument
causing vertical contemplation
driving horizontal actions
perceiving a new way of seeing
distracting the mind from collapsing

To write:

a way to self-express in order that someone else who cannot
might make sense of what is wrought within them. a determination
to put thought into word, fiction, or non, serif or sans serif,
with a course of action to drive home the theme, the point, the hope
that one might mean something with what talent they are given,
and then that is the goal then:

finding some way to say it
finding some way to express it
finding some way to contribute to it
finding some way to survive it
finding some way to live it
finding some way to stand it

To write:

open ended, contribute when you can, for a mind uniquely thinks uniquely
on what host it has to express, what hands it has to type or write or scribble.
What index fingers jars the backspace key, and what one hits return,
to skip ahead, but to go back to the core of the need:

to write.