The Writer

iv

Write for today and like it's all,

That'll be left of you,

Tomorrow.

Never write for popularity.

Write with clarity, but

'Don't make everything said'.

Write a million things;

An ode to the voice

Inside your head,

An elegy for the living,

A carpe diem for the dead.

Write to tell,

Peoople going through hell,

To just keep going;

They'll find a way out.

Don't write for approval,

Or judgement;

That way misery lies.

Poetry can't be judged,

Not properly -

It's subjective,

Different to different eyes.

Write for yourself;

Doesn't matter if it's

Good enough for anyone else.

You'll never be Shakespeare.

But he'd never have been you;

Pour your heart into it,

That's the best that you can do.