To Write

To write — to paint pictures with words in an endless cycle

To Write

To write — to paint pictures
with words in an endless cycle
To reside within
the worlds you’ve stolen
To live, live the poetry
you insist on imagining
To Imagine
yet never read
To live within
the words you don’t understand
To write the reality
you’ve never felt
To lose yourself in love
the love you’d never grant
To love the very fantasy
you still fear
To fear, fear living
and dying equally— so you create
To create in order to breathe
the dead air of faded memories
To cleanse the soul
of the very dust you breathe
To believe what
you’ve written
To reminisce of what
you couldn’t forget
To forget it all
in the end
To forget and
never remember again
To be the testimony
of life once lived — the imagination
To imagine — To imagine:
writing, painting, living, breathing
To write in order to have it all,
have it all written down.

Cover Art: Akashi Gidayū’s Death Poem by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1890