Day 19: How I Write

I don’t wait

If I wait I forget

The brilliant ideas are lost

To the eternity sea of thoughts

Where I hope someone else fishes them out

I don’t wait

Waiting only stirs the thoughts

Like a painting with too many colors

That turns to brown

The mind is stuck in a cesspool of frustration

Be as the white rabbit:

There’s no time to waste

I don’t wait

I let the fingers do the talking

Feel the clicking and the clacking

Doing my best to lay off the backspace

Letting the space between the keys and my fingertips

Control the world

If only for a few moments

I don’t wait

Waiting is like damming up the mind

The fish are hungry and the trees are dying

Let the river flow as is must

Let erosion eat away at the muddy sides

I didn’t need them anyway

Allow the water to breed all the terrible thoughts and wonderful thoughts

I don’t wait

I’ve waited in the past

The regret was too much to handle

So I forget

Then I forgot that I wanted to remember

Nothing mattered in the end

And here we are

I don’t wait

All the senses must take over

Smell the words

Hear the laughter between quotations

An ancient mind, present, writing from the future

Where do the words and thoughts come from

I sometimes wonder

But I don’t fret too much

Because they were always here

I don’t wait

Because eventually I will be dead

I want my thoughts and words to mean something

To someone else

Always for someone else

Because I was inspired once

And hope to do the same for you

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Author's Note #1: Now I am supposed to pass this on. So now you should write a poem about how you write. Have fun!