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Pen and Pad

I love the pen and pad

But I don't think I can use it

It really makes me quite sad

That I can't seem to work it

 

You see, it's my confession to make

That I love to write

But it's sort of fake

What I really feel

Doesn't rhyme

So I change it's form

So it can fit the time

 

The pen and pad

So beautiful it feels

The sign of an intellect

Of a writer to be feared

J can't explain the reverance

For the pen and pad I posess

But surely it isn't natural

To find a workman's tool

My mind's only nest

 

I have found that there is a problem

The dilemma is this:

I can't really use these tools

Even though they're my mind's nest

I can't truly navigate them

With the words great writers heft

I can't form them

Into works of art

Like all the artists I envy

With words nor picture

Not short nor lengthy

 

You see, it's quite clear

The pen and pad

The paper and ink

They work so well together

It makes my heart sink

They inspire joy

From my hollowed throat

They are too beautiful

For words to provoke

But still I try my hand

At writing with paper and ink

Because all I can do

Is think

But all I write

Feels fake

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truman-brislin-miller
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Published
Feb 2, 2012
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