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Why I Write


I do not write poetry for people.

I do not write poetry for you.

I am blessed, yes, but I sit beneath no peepul.

It is not for the “ahs” or the “oohs”

 

I write poetry

            Not for me.

I write poetry for it wants to be written.

It is not for creed.

            Rather because I am smitten.

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