If  I could do anything to make a living, 

I would do everything I could 

to give myself away. 

Call it piracy: 

I would take my struggles and my pain

and throw them to the world to make a point. 

I would write down my pain in lines 

and lyrics and give them flight into the big wide world. 

I would scratch out my past in prose and speak

of what people need to hear,

not want to hear -- wanting is for those fulfilled -- 

but I would say what I could to pull people up. 

So I will learn. 

I'll read. I'll surround myself with brilliance. 

And I will speak. 

I will be wrong, 

but I will be learning. 

If I could do anything, I would write.