I'm Not A Poet, Definitely Not A Dead One
I just started writing
Simple as that
Sure it wasn't extraordinary
But it helped
Sure it didn't end my tremors
Or dizziness
Quickened breathing
Negative thoughts that raced at 85mph
But it helped
Sure I'm no Sylvia Plath
I can't write things like
"Contusion"
"Love Is a Parallax"
"I Want, I Want"
"Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest"
But I've written
"Model"
"The Sneeze That Made Me Cry"
"Prose That You'd Oppose"
"I Only Ever Rhymed With You On My Mind"
Those poems helped
The feelings and obscure happenings I've written down
Helped
They aided Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf
But unlike them
I won't end with a few collections of poetry
And family left behind
At a time of my choosing
I will live
Overuse my fingers
Experience more blockage for new topics
I will write
I will write
I will write
It will help
It will help
It will help