Why do I write by Isaiah Dundas

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Question.

Do I write to question?

You tell me.

Does the writer sketch all night just to agree? 

For the sake of being a clone?

One would think not.

The writer goes against the grain.

He's called insane. 

Refuses the broad way.

He opts for the narrow.

He knows the way that was told leads to nothing but misery for the misguided soul.

The writer has a third eye.

The eye that can break the complex and simplify.

The eye that can see through the wasted words of a man.

The writer possesses the mental fortitude of a man who has lived a thousand years.

He's fought many battles, caused many tears.

Stripes on his chest just to show he's been there.

But that rap does not answer your question.

Let's get back to where we were at.

Why do I write.

I write because I dont take the broad way.

I take the hard way.

The pen and the pad.

 Rough as the first draft.

I write because I've lived a thousand lives, I've made people cry. 

Before somebody writes a lie about my life and makes you believe it. 

I write to tell the story of my life the way I see it.

 

 

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