"The Writer's 'Guide' to Living"
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“You don’t understand.”
“I suppose I don’t,” I say…
…”I swear I used to.”
I want to help you.
Because I’d love very much
To see you smile.
Life’s a constant work--
And an unwritten novel.
Possibility.
Stuck on chapter one,
You cannot stop trying to
Erase the mistakes
Erasing so much--
the paper is wearing down:
to holes and ridges.
Mapped in the prologue
Is my future’s solid plan--
My page has holes, too.
--The ridges will come,
It will not be perfection;
Tears will stain the pages.
Can’t erase it all.
Tears will dry--so we must write.
Please don’t stop writing.
Some authors may plan.
Others--spontaneity.
There is no “correct.”.
But one cannot write
Without the spilled mess of ink.
Please--write an ending.