the goal of the best writers
is to be able to live and respond to the literature
in a most coherent way
but the goal of the best literature
is to totally and completely overwhelm the writer
to blend their thoughts and feelings into an incoherent mess
to make an indelible mark on their souls
and to leave their pulse racing and their eyes throbbing
to wipe their life experience into a blank slate and rewrite it
in a hurricane of ideas and emotions, tumbling and burning their lives
like a holy firestorm, lost in the desert and whipping the scalding wind around
this, the tenderest and gentlest part of your heart.