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If I Could Write

by mark-ball

O if I could only write Poetry worthy of your Reading! Find clarity in Complexities. Make Art and rhyme of the unspoken. Offer up my words As tokens of my Vulnerability. Then, then you would see. If only I could write a book worth reading past the first few pages. Not the type for school that you read in stages in order to maintain your vitality. A book you can drown yourself in without glancing at a screen. Words you can devour rather than glean. An idyllic scene. Far from the person you know best. If only I could write myself in a play. My life mapped out from day to day with instructions on my whereabouts and actions. Our conversations would be succint, artful and with purpose. I would have long, coherently structured speeches and always have the right things to say, expressed in the wittiest way. My life would be dictated by Your entrances and exits. All my plot lines resolved in Act 3; That would suit me. O if only I could write those words; The ones worth saying. Those words different from our Daily utterances. Those words you have been meaning to say but have not yet had time to shape them round your lips. If I could write those words, I would. Unfortunately it's just me. But I will try, I promise. Just you see-
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Oct 18, 2014
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