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Apr 2020
I write.

But Why?

Because I must?

I have to?

I want to?

I must, deep inside, have to want to.

I want not to write because I have to,

Yet I must write because I want to,

Yet I write with pen, key, pad, and spacebar.

I hate writing the most when I must write little,

Yet I Must want to write when I want to write much.

Now, when much is written, and little from me,  

Is it still poetry?

If written for no one yet everyone,

Or layered between that which is not me

That which is not human

That which can only see,

The words themselves and translate to action.

Not inspire, but cause.

Where once I wrote to uplift that most complicated machine,

Now I dictate to the most powerful,

Yet least imaginative.

Least want.

Because I want to do.

Writing is doing,  

Insofar as it is creating,

But I must write.

Yet I have to write.

Yet after writing to the machine,

I must write to myself.

Both in meter and constraint,

And both absolute.

One must be correct,

One must be perfect.

One must work,

One must do.

I am responsible for the machine,

Yet I am the writing.

Thus, I must have to write.

I must want to.

But I must make myself

Want to must have to write.
this poem rambles a lot. I attempts to understand my multifaceted feelings about writing, whether that be essay, code, article, or poem. More or less, poetry feels like something I must write. my soul will slowly seep from my body if I dont. Articles, posts, graphics, are things I want to write, as they do things, theyre interesting, but not high priority. Assignments I have to write, since there is a deadline. things like code, or essays. its the balance of things that make me happy or make me be able to exist and find a future. if you got this far, Thank you.
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Troy  19/M/The Blue Sky
(19/M/The Blue Sky)   
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     Fawn, ryn, --- and OmRh
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